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Philip Emeagwali — war survivor and refugee - will deliver his message of how to shake off mediocrity and live up to greatness. Most requested topics: Internet, youth motivation, assemblies, future, globalization, creativity, innovation, black history, Martin Luther King, Independence and Africa Days Lectures. About the Speaker Over the past 15 years, many U.S. and Canadian college campuses have asked famed pioneer of the Supercomputer and Internet, Philip Emeagwali, to speak on Africa Night, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and during Black History Month. Last year, he delivered a dozen high-profile keynote addresses at colleges and high-tech conferences around the United States. His speeches can be found on YouTube and are known to provoke an avalanche of commentary and debates on blogs, in newspapers and magazine articles, and in letters to editors around the world. Speaking Style Philip Emeagwali's high-content presentations will be customized to fit with your event theme. Regardless of the type of event, you can count on Emeagwali to use his unique skills of creativity, metaphor and innovation, and the hard-won lessons learned from them, to align his presentation closely with your goals. He will also assist listeners as they learn how to create innovative strategies for success in life. Emeagwali brings abstract ideas to life with his energy, emotion and passion. His lectures on incisive contemporary, technological and futuristic issues that affect the African Diaspora receive standing ovations and have a sense of longevity that finds expression in newspaper headlines and rave reviews on thousands of Web sites long after they are delivered. Please review the materials on emeagwali.com or contact me for additional information. Regards, Donita Brown Booking Secretary 202-203-8724 801-640-9971 (fax) Donita Brown donita@emeagwali.com An Oratory Introduction - of Philip Emeagwali Son of Africa, war survivor, supercomputer pioneer, a visionary father of the Internet, we welcome you to our historic city of Liverpool, England. Your country’s founding president - Nnamdi Azikiwe - said, “Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.” You exemplify both. You discovered a formula that enables computers powered by 65,000 electronic brains called processors to work as one supercomputer that performs the world’s fastest calculations. Your discoveries inspired the reinvention of supercomputers, as a union of vast numbers of processors communicating like an Internet. You theorized that 65,000 computers around the Earth could work as one to forecast the weather. This theoretical supercomputer, with 65,000 nodes, is known today as the Internet. For your bold theory, the book History of the Internet, CNN and TIME magazine have called you “a father of the Internet.” You solved the most difficult problem in supercomputing by reformulating Newton’s Second Law of Motion as 18 equations and algorithms, then as 24 million algebraic equations; finally you programmed 65,000 processors to work as one and solve those 24 million equations at a speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second. Your 65,000 processors, 24 million equations and 3.1 billion calculations were three world records, garnered international headlines, made mathematicians rejoice, and caused your fellow Africans to beam with pride. Your discovery that 65,000 processors could work as one is foundational knowledge that gave rise to the eight billion dollar a year supercomputer industry and paved the way to solving problems that were once thought to be unsolvable and improved life for millions. A poll by the London-based New African magazine ranked you as history's greatest scientist of African descent. After you won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing, President Bill Clinton called you “one of the great minds of the Information Age,” as well as the

• Release Date

  Jan 25, 2008

• Runtime

  08:13