Tuesday 8 February 2011
Known as a "father of the internet" and sometimes called the Bill Gates of Africa, the computing superbrain Philip Emeagwali spent years of his childhood in a refugee camp before he went on to become, in former US president Bill Clinton's words, "one of the great minds of the Information age".He was born on 23 August 1954, in Nigeria and he was one of nine children of Ibo-speaking parents.
He showed early promise at school and he was called "Calculus" by his classmates because of his extraordinary abilities in maths.
In 1966, started a civil between central government and the ethnic Ibo population so, as I told before, he spent most of the time in a refugee camp.
In 1974, Emeagwali went to USA and fifteen years later he graduated in mathematics, civil, coastal and marine engeneering and also in computer science.
In 1989, he won the computing World's Nobel Prize and The Gordon Bell Prize for solving a problem, that had benn classified by USA government as one of the 20 more difficult computing problems ever, performing the world's fastest computationat 3.1 bilion calculations per second.
Carlos Silva 12ºB.
Ps: Sorry for the delay but I have been a little bit busy so I couldn't post it before.
2 comentários:
Dear Carlos
at last! Thanks for the post. I've enjoyed it a lot
prof. Lígia
You may want to review a bit more about this gentleman before propagating his stories and claims. For a brief review of his claims go to: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5639069-146/the_lies_of_philip_emeagwali_.csp
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