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PHILIP EMEAGWALI - "Our Descendants Will Be the Computer" emeagwali 37 views A Stronger America Through Technology IS THERE A GOD? Our descendants will not need the computer around them because they will be the computer. I envision our...
The Global SuperBrain - PHILIP EMEAGWALI emeagwali 48 views A Stronger America Through Technology I have shared this story with you for five reasons. First, we actually are constructing a planet-sized supercomputer that i...
"Is There a God?" - PHILIP EMEAGWALI emeagwali 79 views IS THERE A GOD? Our descendants will not need the computer around them because they will be the computer. I envision our descendants as super-intelligent cyborgs...
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PHILIP EMEAGWALI - Keynote Speech - A Stronger America Through Technology emeagwali 33 views A Stronger America Through Technology The General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Office of Integrated Technology Services invites ...
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PHILIP EMEAGWALI - My Sixteen-Network-Deep Internet emeagwali 53 views A Stronger America Through Technology I discovered that the sixteen-dimensional hypercubic structure gave the supercomputer regular form and freedom in which eac...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI on "The Supercomputer Inside An Internet" emeagwali 50 views A Stronger America Through Technology I discovered how to solve the Grand Challenge Problem of how fluids flow in our universe on an Internet. You and I use the w...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI on "Using Supercomputers to Simulate Nuclear Explosions" emeagwali 40 views The supercomputer stands for strength, making it a deeply desirable technology for simulating nuclear weapon's explosion and building a stronger America. It's an open...

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

As an innovator and pioneer of creative thinking, Emeagwali is especially known for his oratorical skills. He has been lauded for his lectures on incisive contemporary, technological and futuristic issues that affect the African Diaspora.

As a public figure and thought leader well informed on a broad range of global issues, Emeagwali frequently provides expert commentary on complex technological issues that affect the African Diaspora.

He is a popular speaker for Africa-related events. As a scholar with a unique voice and a singular perspective, his speeches often provoke commentary and debate, with his central ideas helping to shape public opinion.

Examples of his lectures include Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty," delivered at the University of Alberta (Canada), which provoked lively debate, pro and con, in newspapers around the world. That speech was hailed as an out-of-the-box thinking about what Africa must do to alleviate poverty, survive and thrive in the information age. His speech "Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap was widely circulated by media outlets. His speeches on the future of the computer and Internet has been widely hailed as utterly wondrous, yet frightening.

Recent keynote speeches include the Martin Luther King 40th anniversary lecture in the United States, African Day lecture in Spain and the University of the West Indies lecture in Trinidad and Tobago.

Upon request, Emeagwali tailors his presentations to fit the themes of meeting planners. He is a mesmerizing storyteller and can relate his own compelling story of evolution from a child-soldier to a soldier of science. His high-content presentations full of energy, emotion, and passion help listeners learn to create innovative strategies for success in their own lives.

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Hailed as "the Bill Gates of Africa" by then-president Bill Clinton, Philip Emeagwali is a war survivor and renowned pioneer of the supercomputer and the Internet. "The Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali," observed TIME magazine. CNN has called him "a father of the Internet."

He was born on August 23, 1954, in Nigeria. At an early age, he developed a love for mathematics and earned the nickname "Calculus." With two million others, Emeagwali fled persecution to the safety of Biafran refugee camps during Nigeria's 30-month civil war that began in July 1967, which killed one million people. He was conscripted into the Biafran army at age 14, won a scholarship to the United States at age 19.

In his adopted country, Emeagwali became fascinated with what he called the "HyperBall," a theorized supercomputer equivalent to an idealized Internet. He began programming in 1974 and because he could not find a research laboratory interested in his HyperBall, he conducted research alone for 15 years, delving deeply into the deep connections between motion, calculus, and computing.

In 1989, he shocked the computing industry by winning singlehandedly, as an unknown, the Gordon Bell Prize, considered the "Nobel Prize of supercomputing." He reformulated Newton's Second Law of Motion as 18 "grand challenge" equations and algorithms and then re-created those as 24 million algebraic equations. By programming 65,000 processors to work as one, he solved those 24 million equations at a speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second, setting three world records and garnering international headlines.

This discovery that 65,000 processors can solve a grand challenge defined as the 20 gold-ring problems in computing, in part, inspired the reinvention of supercomputers as a union of vast numbers of processors communicating as an Internet. He is profiled in books on the history of the Internet because his discovery suggested a re-definition of the computer of the mid 21st century "a device communicating as an Internet while computing with thousands of processors," instead of one.

By expanding the limits of computing, Emeagwali has helped to move humanity forward into the age of information, which prompted president Bill Clinton to extol him as "one of the great minds of the Information Age."

In his native Nigeria, he is hailed as national hero, his likeness appearing on the nation's postage stamps and on the continent's music videos. He has been cited in numerous polls and lists of history's greatest black achievers, by publications ranging from New African to Ebony.

Emeagwali has won city-wide tennis tournaments. He is married to Dale, a prominent molecular biologist, and they have a son, Ijeoma, who is studying computer engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He travels from Washington, D.C.

For more info, visit emeagwali.com or call his booking secretary at 443-850-0850

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Onitsha, Nigeria

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Pioneer of the Supercomputer and Internet

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Skiing in Minnesota or swimming and hiking in the Mediterranean and Caribbean islands.

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