Emeagwali learned the Fortran lingo at the speed of light; Propelled by an ethereal sense of vocation and vision, Demonstrating like a lion his proclivity to seek and to conquer those challenges most abstruse and exacting, With bold, daring, unprecedented and intrepid thinking;
Denied funds and easy access to research facilities, Ostensibly because his research was not deemed "serious" By those who failed to see his scintillating accomplishments, He tapped deeply into the unmapped boundaries of science; Treated less than an equal, working without pay or perquisite, Doors were constantly shut by those surprised he was not white,
The tanned color of his skin condemned by peers as a stigma, With belief in the putative ignorance of Africa; He took the thorny path to dispel the myth of error, Their aberration of a science genius from Africa; Where others found a wall replete with obfuscating visions, He unravelled an untapped vastness of possibilities; With sedulous focus, perception and unique enterprise, A lone, assiduous research into the matrix of science, He beat the odds to break all the barriers of time, space and depth, With only his wife Dale's unwavering belief in her Philip;
Building on Richardson's fantasy on human computers, He simulated and surpassed the computational speed of the elite supercomputers once placed out of his reach, With revolutionary equations deemed "impossible"; He harnessed the power of 65,000 processors, To perform the fastest computations ever known to man, Billions and billions of calculations per second he solved, For which feat Emeagwali received the Gordon Bell prize; With genius unparalleled since Einstein, Newton, Equiano, He extrapolated the mystery of constellations, From observing the natural geometries and patterns, In the efficient construction of bees' honeycombs; He extended the barriers of interference and diffraction, and expanded the vectorial form of Navier-Stokes equations, Resolving heuristical arguments and algorithms, Momentum equations, convective motions, Cray’s polemic;
Like a soaring eagle he continues his path to glory; Undeterred by bias, rejection or discrimination, He developed the theory of a computer hyperball, With his tessellated models for parallel computing, And the counter-intuitive hypercube paradox, Mass equations, helicity, chirality, duality- He unified the laws of nature, physics and geology Testament to a great mind that defies imagination; A father of the internet, and a true son of the earth, He's the apotheosis of modern African genius.
Denied funds and easy access to research facilities, Ostensibly because his research was not deemed "serious" By those who failed to see his scintillating accomplishments, He tapped deeply into the unmapped boundaries of science; Treated less than an equal, working without pay or perquisite, Doors were constantly shut by those surprised he was not white,
The tanned color of his skin condemned by peers as a stigma, With belief in the putative ignorance of Africa; He took the thorny path to dispel the myth of error, Their aberration of a science genius from Africa; Where others found a wall replete with obfuscating visions, He unravelled an untapped vastness of possibilities; With sedulous focus, perception and unique enterprise, A lone, assiduous research into the matrix of science, He beat the odds to break all the barriers of time, space and depth, With only his wife Dale's unwavering belief in her Philip;
Building on Richardson's fantasy on human computers, He simulated and surpassed the computational speed of the elite supercomputers once placed out of his reach, With revolutionary equations deemed "impossible"; He harnessed the power of 65,000 processors, To perform the fastest computations ever known to man, Billions and billions of calculations per second he solved, For which feat Emeagwali received the Gordon Bell prize; With genius unparalleled since Einstein, Newton, Equiano, He extrapolated the mystery of constellations, From observing the natural geometries and patterns, In the efficient construction of bees' honeycombs; He extended the barriers of interference and diffraction, and expanded the vectorial form of Navier-Stokes equations, Resolving heuristical arguments and algorithms, Momentum equations, convective motions, Cray’s polemic;
Like a soaring eagle he continues his path to glory; Undeterred by bias, rejection or discrimination, He developed the theory of a computer hyperball, With his tessellated models for parallel computing, And the counter-intuitive hypercube paradox, Mass equations, helicity, chirality, duality- He unified the laws of nature, physics and geology Testament to a great mind that defies imagination; A father of the internet, and a true son of the earth, He's the apotheosis of modern African genius.
His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.
Let the history begin
Philip Adebayo Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He has been living in the United States for many years. An Igbo, He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize ($1,000) for price-performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation.
Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954. His early schooling was suspended in 1967 as a result of the Nigerian Civil War. At 13 years, he served in the Biafran army. After the war he completed high-school equivalence through self-study.
I like this part, Education
He traveled to the United States to study under a scholarship following completion of a correspondence course at the University of London. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He later moved to Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. Next magazine claims that Emeagwali claimed to have further degrees. During this time, he worked as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming.
He traveled to the United States to study under a scholarship following completion of a correspondence course at the University of London. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He later moved to Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. Next magazine claims that Emeagwali claimed to have further degrees. During this time, he worked as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming.
Oh my God! He was denied degree check this out
Emeagwali studied for a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan from 1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and external examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree. Emeagwali filed a court challenge, stating that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his race. The court challenge was dismissed, as was an appeal to the Michigan state Court of Appeals.
Let's check out how many awards his super computing got him
Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2massively-parallel computer. The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir modelling. He won in the "price/performance" category, with a performance figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M. The winner in the "performance" category, Mobil Research and Thinking Machines, used the CM-2 for seismic data processing and achieved the higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges decided on one award per entry. His method involved each microprocessor communicating with six neighbours.
Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling.
NIGERIANS ARE THE BEST AND AM PROUD TO BE A NIGERIAN. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
NIGERIANS ARE THE BEST AND AM PROUD TO BE A NIGERIAN. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
