Emeagwali

In the topics below, Emeagwali will share his insights on technology, politics, black history and the future of humanity. Africa: My Vision for the Future Why Africans Are Not Returning Home Can Africa Leapfrog into the Information Age? My Answers to 10 Difficult to Answer Questions De-Colonization of the African Mind A World Without Black People To Be Young, Gifted and Black Frontiers of Internet2 Frontiers of Supercomputing Globalization and Global Warming Genie Out of the Bottle Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Does God Exist? Hold Fast Your Dreams It Was the Audacity of My Thinking Out of My Mind One Day We Had to Run! High-Tech & Africa Africa: My Vision for the Future Intellectual Capital & Globalization Expounds on his belief that increasing Africa's intellectual capital is the only path to poverty alleviation. Reading Guide Our Children Will be Digital! How Can Africa Help Africa? Como o senhor chegou à Máquina da Conexão. O Bill Gates Africano Understanding Globalization Globalization and Its Discontents The Poor in the Age of Globalization The Wealth of Knowledge Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations Intellectual Capital Why Africans Are Not Returning Home Brain Drain One in three African university graduate live and work outside Africa. Emeagwali argues that one third of the African education budget is, in effect, a supplement to the American education budget. "Africa is giving developmental assistance to the United States," he will argue. Reading Guide Why Africans Are Not Returning Home Capital Flight from Africa Exodus From Africa Educación en Africa A Fuga de Cérebros Refugee Scientists Intellectuals in Exile China's Brain Drain to the United States The Exodus of Ethiopia's Trained Human Resources Migration and Brain Drain Can Africa Leapfrog into the Information Age? What Can Technology do for Africa? Emeagwali's radical hypothesis of leapfrogging into the Information Age generated a lot of buzz in 1997, prompting an African scholar to write: "I was almost driven to the point of crying while reading the presentation." Reading Guide Can Nigeria Leapfrog into the Information Age? Onderwijs in Afrika Future My Answers to 10 Difficult to Answer Questions Thought-Provoking, Futuristic. Two of the ten difficult to answer questions include (1) why computers, as we know them today, will become obsolete in 20 years, and (2) why the email will become as obsolete as the telegraph in 100 years. Reading Guide Lessons from the Future Our Children Will Be Digital! African Renaissance De-Colonization of the African Mind The abstract is in preparation Reading Guide Renascent Africa by Nnamdi Azikiwe "The Time Has Come" by Thabo Mbeki Harlem Renaissance The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans "The Mis-Education of the Negro" by Carter G. Woodson "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Du Bois "The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality" by Cheikh Anta Diop Our Children Will Be Digital! Black History & Technology A World Without Black People A Black Mathematician's Apology Science and technology is the gift of ancient Africans to our modern world. A black scientist reexamines the racism among historians of science. Reading Guide A World Without Black People I am a Black Mathematician Science, Math, and Invention Biographical Encyclopedia of Science To Be Young, Gifted and Black A Whack on the Side of My Head Talk will shatter the myth about "equal access" and reveal the obstacles that has historically made it impossible for blacks to advance in science and invention. Reading Guide A Young Black Man in America The Autobiography of Malcolm X Roots (by Alex Haley) Standing at the Intersection of Race & Technology Scientific Seminars The scientific seminars below are recommended for only researchers. Some of these were delivered as invited lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO, Paris) and the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (the largest gathering of applied mathematicians). Frontiers of Internet2 Taking Internet2 to the Next Level Talk on grid computing and next-generation Internet for the National Lectureship of the Association for Computing Machinery (the oldest computer society). Reading Guide It Was the Audacity of My Thinking History of the Internet Frontiers of Supercomputing Will Computers Become Obsolete? Talk on next-generation supercomputing prepared for the Distinguished Visitor Program of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (the world's largest technical organization). Reading Guide It Was the Audacity of My Thinking 1989 Gordon Bell Prize Globilization and Global Warming The Computational Science Computation and implementation of next-generation weather forecasting and general circulation models on a HyperBall grid and Internet3. Reading Guide Global Brain as a Super-Brain The Grid General Circulation Model Development Genie Out of the Bottle Petroleum Reservoir Simulation The mathematical and computational formulation behind Emeagwali's work in the field of oil recovery. In reviewing this work, the May 1990 issue of IEEE Software academic journal wrote: "The amount of money at stake is staggering. For example, you can typically expect to recover 10 percent of a field's oil. If you can improve your production schedule to get just 1 percent more oil, you will increase your yield by $400 million (at $20 per barrel in a 20-billion-barrel field). " Reading Guide Tackling Oil Industry Problems Solving Oil Recovery Problems Genie Out of the Bottle Making Strides in a Parallel Universe Nature's Own Numbers Man Petroleum Reservoir Simulation Personal Development Ten Things I Wish I'd Known I Believe I Can Fly!!! Personal stories and insights that will be helpful and encouraging to teenagers. The lessons include --- "learn first, earn later," "a clay of wisdom is more valuable than a bag of gold," and "be true to thyself." Reading Guide Inventor pays visit to e-mail pal He's an intellectual inspiration Emeagwali spurns the title of genius I Believe I Can Fly All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Does God Exist? Science Meets Spirituality Explorations of deep questions from the border between science and spirituality. Reading Guide A Brief History of Time Does God Exist? Any Points of Contact? Hold Fast Your Dreams Commencement Address Motivating and inspirational stories drawn from high-tech. Reading Guide Onward! What Now? Graduation Day Speaking of Graduating Hold Fast Your Dreams Oh, the Places You'll Go* Personal Recollections It Was the Audacity of My Thinking Who is the Father of the Internet? The book "History of the Internet" described Emeagwali as one of the pioneers of the Internet. CNN called him "A Father of the Internet." Emeagwali, regarded as a contrarian who never followed the crowd, will describe how he invented an international network that was similar to, but predated that, of the Internet. Reading Guide A Father of the Internet It Was the Audacity of My Thinking History of the Internet Out of My Mind History of Computing Unlike other historians, Emeagwali refuses to acknowledge that computing began in 1950. Instead, he credits high concepts such as the abacus, "zero," and supercomputers as the engines that drove the technology. Reading Guide The Ways of Counting A Salute to Computer Pioneers Is the Global Brain a Super-Brain? One Day We Had to Run! Chronicles From A Refugee Camp Personal recollections from a 30-month civil war described as Africa's bloodiest. Emeagwali lived in a refugee camp and was later conscripted into the army as a child soldier. Reading Guide After The War Was Over The Biafra Story: Brothers' War War Stories Planning School Visits Setting Up an Author Visit The Perfect Author Visit Preparing for an Author Visit Author Visit FAQs Invite an Author to Your School Preparation Checklist for Author Visit Why Have an Author in School? Planning an Author Visit The Day of the Author Visit Timeline to a Successful Author Visit Photos for Posters, Publicity and Press Releases 4x6 color print 8x10 color print 5x7 Black & White Cropped for Web pages Two dozen photos Each talk is unique and tailored for the specific audience. The press release and transcript (as prepared for delivery) will be archived at emeagwali.com. 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