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Re: Which Way Nlng? by michael77: 7:59am On Jan 17, 2008 |
You know kuwena, your idol Emeagwali couldnt even get his PhD (he is definitely not a professor). He was told that his thesis was not up to it. In fact, most of the stuff you see on his site is crap. You can follow this link to be better educated: http://www.elendureports.com/index.php?Itemid=1&id=46&option=com_content&task=view Bottomline: America no easy |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by opokonwa(m): 8:13am On Jan 17, 2008 |
Okpoko, The Fool, at the rate you are going, it is clear to me that you will die a fool. And when you do die, even the devil will be afraid to admit you to hell. He well will ask you to start yours.from Kuwena When someone whose familial and childhood experiences bothers on the gory, the unpleasant and the pitiable gooes through great lengths to run down another whose familial and childhood experience is obviously more priviledged, you begin to wonder . . . ![]() Is this just vendatta? Or what informs the fury, the anger, creativity in the deceptive stories and the slander. no be small thing o! I was born into a loving family, I grew up in the loving care of both parents, I never lacked anything. Both parents were career people, my dad got to the top of his career, my mum is currently on the top of hers. I grew up knowing them and being taken care of in the best possible way. Dad was busy travelling around the world and mum was busy being the domestic and moral head ![]() And both are currently alive, still living together, a true example of what a Nigerian marriage stands for. I never woke up one day to find out that my dad has committed suicide, in a pool of his own blood ![]() I never woke up another morning to find out that mum had died in a plane crash ![]() I never went through school begging for 'hand-outs' to eat, stooping to people and beggind for second-hand clothes to wear, I never experienced all that. I had a priviledged upbringing and yet, I do not consider my upbringing aristocratic. I had a car to myself in school, paid off all roommates to stay alone in the hostel, rolled with the boys that made school tick, yet I do not consider myself aristocratic. Perhaps that informed why I never made a 1st class b/c education was boring ![]() How wrong I was. Yet, I left all these back home, left home to become a man, perhaps to prove to dad and mum that I'm not all stupid. You would give anything Kuwena to have my childhood in place of yours. We are not and will never be in the same category! So, when you open your mouth and slander my parents, think of one thing; at least they are still alive to see all their kids through, highly successful and you and I are never in the same category. At the point I met you, you had posted your gory family details on Nairaland and to encourage you, I told you the story of my uncle who has been evil. Simply to let you know that your family is not the only place the devil lives. He is everywhere! Even in the USA you worship. It is our job to manage the situations as they happen and stay afloat till we die! I merely talked to you to share your pain. Why you also used it to slander my family in public is what I can call madness. It only shows how grateful and trustworthy you could be. I do not blame you at all. And my sister is not in the same category as your brothers; aside from the fact that she is very successful already, 'she is not looking up to me with pleading eyes like your elder brother and your other two younger brothers.' Those were your own words. She never suffered the fate you did, neither is she suffering the fate your three brothers are presently suffering. The reason why you requested Intercontinental Bank to post you to far away Kano was to run away from helping your family, who so desperately looks up to you ![]() The reason why you changed your number and lied that you lost them and now selectively give it to those who may not be a burden to you is to run away as far as possible from helping your brothers. Your own words too. The reason why you want to run to America bothers on much of the same reason; to run away from your family. You have already declared that you were changing your surname this year; have you changed it yet? I refused to take your number when you offered it to me because I cannot be so deceptively wicked, insensitive and irresponsible to my own family, especially when your parents are late. It negates all christian and moral principles. You wanna fight dirty? Let's fight dirty. The pictures you painted of my living with my aunt must have been a reflection of what you experienced from your so-called 'evil' uncle. As you posted some time ago on the thread. From what I gathered, you even experienced worse than that. Little wonder you ran away from the house, all of a sudden! Why then do you think everyone else will share the same fate as yours? ![]() My aunt and I are best of friends, even closer in some respects than my immediate family. It is true that I lived a somewhat carefree life in my first few years away from home. I always had more than enough money under my parents roof that coming to terms with 'managing money' was a challenge to me. It is normal with almost every kid who had my upbringing and lifestyle. But I have gotten over it. I am not bedevilled with loans and repayments like you posted. I am free of debts. Your calculated slander will not change anything about who I am. In summary, your post about having an aristocratic father, being handsome, talking with a 'British accent', walking with a panche in your gait and the funniest of all, having a chest pushed out against the wind was the vainest and stupidest post I have ever seen on Nairaland! What was most annoying was your blaming it on why you may never be successful in the Nigerian job industry as though NLNG looked at people's passports before they gave them their offer letters. ![]() Your inferiority complex as a Nigerian is beyond repair. Perhaps you may need to take a flight to heaven to debate with God, why he made you an African, a Nigerian and unfortunately, an Igbo man ![]() Because obviously, you know better than HIM ![]() Get to terms with your situation friend, nobody even knows that you exist, so please quit talking about envy and move on. There are over six billion souls in he world so I wonder why you see envy everywhere ![]() Even the Bank which currently pays you is envious of you as you posted. Are you not 'complexed'? Ol boy! I quit! ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 10:02am On Jan 17, 2008 |
Davidlyan, so I take it that you are studying a science course? Is that what made it easier for you to get an I-20? And may I ask which school is that you are attending? Did you get (are you currently enjoying) any source of funding? If yes, is it by way of an assistantship? Do you work as well as school, or are you folks back here responsible for your training to any extent? How easy was it for you to get a Visa; when did you leave for the USA? Which embassy (Lagos or Abuja) granted you the 'winning' interview? What other challenges did you face? I would indeed like a little more fill-in with your story. Believe me, I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT AMERICA IS NOT PAVED WITH GOLD. You do not have to keep saying that. I probably know it more than you do. I have at least three people I know who went there and returned disillusioned, and have refused to ever go there again. I know at least one other person who regrets even getting to know the place. SO relax. I know it is not a bed of roses. It may even be harder making it there than here, for a good number of people. I also know that a lot of people over there are living on credit. They are what Robert Kiyosaki would call those in the rat race. Davidlyan. The point is, share withme information if you care; do not keep trying to dampen me; it is not fair. Okay? America is not heaven. It is not easy. I KNOW THIS. I KNOW THIS. OK? |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 10:11am On Jan 17, 2008 |
Phillip Emeagwali: Icon or Con Man? @michael77, please, do not call Emeagwali my idol. Is this the article you are referring to? The article did say that Emeagwali did not get his PhD and sued the university for that. It did not say he was not intelligent enough not to get the PhD. Secondly, the article was written by a fellow Nigerian. Why is it that all the articles I have seen that rubbish the man are written by fellow black people? Thirdly, Bill Gates is a drop out. To follow your logic, he could not even graduate. Does that make him any less a genius? Fourthly, in Igbo culture we say that if a gecko falls from a tree and no one praises him, he should praise himself. This the man has done. Fifthly, he did win the Gordon Bell prize, and there can be no disputing the fact. Sixthly, he is a cherished American, and Bill Clinton did boast about him before the National Assembly, here in Nigeria. Lastly, Emeagwaly DID help make a fastest supercomputer, as you can confirm from from credible sources that are not his personal website. Love those who do well. ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 10:15am On Jan 17, 2008 |
I went to the hospital, and now I feel hale and hearty. Good luck to all of you, and safe journey to my beloved who are going to London for their NLNG training. I love you all. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by Sanni2: 4:06pm On Jan 18, 2008 |
Kuwena you are correct.What you say about Emeagwali is true.He is a genius. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by ebogentle(m): 4:13pm On Jan 18, 2008 |
Just a quick one. While i accept that the authenticity of Phillip emeagwali achievements seem to be sometimes shrouded in mystery, i will however want the house to take a look at this video. [url] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kF3UTxmjuU [/url] Why would Bill Clinton himself be extoling the virtues of this man if he is a con. My advice is that we shouldnt be quick to condemn him. I also think that he may have found he needed to pubicize himself if he was being sidelined or shortchanged in credit due to him simply because he's African American. Ciao. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by Nobody: 2:18am On Jan 19, 2008 |
kuwena: lol Bill Gates is no dropout, he simply left school to pursue his ideas . . . the same way the founders of google left a prestigious phd program in Havard to pursue the idea that has morphed into today's most popular search website. kuwena:yes i study a science course. Its easier to get an I-20 with a grad program in the sciences as more often than not the school funds u. For the arts you need to demonstrate that you have adequate resources to take care of ur expenses that's why its a bit harder but not impossibel. kuwena:University of Rochester kuwena:Yes my education is fully funded. No it is not an assistanship but a fellowship. I work as part of my school curicular. No my parents dont send me a dime except to use some money to grease my palms once in a while. ![]() kuwena:very easy. God just favored me as virtually everyone else on the queue before me was rejected. kuwena:3 yrs ago. Lagos embassy because it didnt make sense to travel all the way to Abuja when i lived in Lagos. Challenges? none really . . . just have a focus, be confident, be prayerful and be ready to answer any ridiculous question that comes your way without looking nervous. I hope that helped. America is not paved with gold but it is the land of opportunity to everyone willing to grab it with 2 hands. I welcome you here in advance. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:03pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
lmao! Davidlyan! Of course that was what I meant by 'drop-out'. Exactly that. He left, to found Microsoft. Simple. The point I was trying to prove was that when a person does not finish school, it does not mean that he is not intelligent. Feel me? ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:06pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Now, back to your story. You are on a Fellowship. I know that mostly it is PhD students that get one. Does this mean that in the three years of your being there, you have finished your Master's and gone ahead to study a PhD that, as you say, is fully funded by a Fellowship? Do you wanna end up a lecturer? What are your vocational plans. One more thing: There you go again saying the USA is not paved with gold. I do know that, okay? ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:11pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
By the way, why University of Rochester? And, more specifically, what course are you doing? The school I am applying to give assistantships in communication, and I am thinking I can apply for one of those; and the reason I took the TOEFL is that it was specifically requested for, in addition to the GRE. Especially because in this IBT format, there is a speaking section, which tests if you are good enough to teach there in spoken English. The results should be out any time soon. So, tell me sincerely, how is America for YOU. YOU. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:26pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
something for your relaxation.
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Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:35pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Philip Emeagwali was born on August 23, 1954, in Akure, Nigeria, the son of James Emeagwali, a nurse’s aide, and his 16-year-old wife, Agatha. Originally Published: November 19, 2005. Philip Emeagwali was born on August 23, 1954, in Akure, Nigeria, the son of James Emeagwali, a nurse’s aide, and his 16-year-old wife, Agatha. In April 1967, he was withdrawn from school as his family hid in refugee camps during an ethnic cleansing in which 50,000 Igbos indigenes were killed. At the age of 14, he was conscripted into the Biafran army as a child-soldier in one of Africa's bloodiest conflicts. After six months in the army, the civil war ended and he was reunited with his family. He attended school briefly and then dropped out again because his parents could not afford to pay his school fees. He earned his first diploma from the University of London (through self-study) in 1973 and, subsequently, won a scholarship to Oregon State University. From 1977-93, he did graduate study, professional practice and academic research at Howard University (civil engineering), Maryland State Highway Administration (transportation engineering), George Washington University (environmental, ocean, coastal and marine engineering), United States Bureau of Reclamation (civil engineer), University of Maryland (mathematics), University of Michigan (scientific computing), University of Minnesota (supercomputing), and Army High Performance Computing Research Laboratory (research fellow). For six years, he served as a distinguished lecturer of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (the world's largest technical organization) and the Association for Computing Machinery (the oldest computer society). He has delivered many major lectureships all over the world, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO, Paris) and the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In 1974, Emeagwali read a 1922 science fiction article on how to use 64,000 mathematicians to forecast the weather for the whole Earth. Inspired by that article, he worked out a theoretical scheme for using 64,000 far-flung processors that will be evenly distributed around the Earth, to forecast the weather. He called it a HyperBall international network of computers. Today, an international network of computers is called the Internet. Initially his proposal to use 64,000 computers to form an international network was rejected by peers on the grounds that it would be "impossible." Denied funding and employment for a decade, he quietly developed and wrote up his calculations in a thousand-page monograph which described the hypothetical use of 64 binary thousand --- the equivalent of 65,536 --- processors to perform the world’s fastest computation. In 1987, an experimental hypercube computer with 65,536 processors became available at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the United States government's prime nuclear weapons research center. Frustrated by their inability to program 65,536 processors to simulate nuclear blasts, the Los Alamos officials had a hunch to allow physicists simulating problems similar to theirs. Fearing that the Lab officials will not accept him if it was known that he was black, Emeagwali decided to submit his proposal remotely. The Lab officials approved his usage of its computers and he remotely programmed 65,536 processors in Los Alamos (New Mexico) while living in Michigan. "It was his formula that used 65,000 separate computer processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989," said CNN. "That feat,” CNN continued, "led to computer scientists comprehending the capabilities of supercomputers and the practical applications of creating a system that allowed multiple computers to communicate." Emeagwali's discovery started making front page headlines and cover stories in 1989, a feat that is a rarity in science. [Time magazine reported that the odds of a scientist "becoming even a little bit famous are a lot worse than 5,000 to 1."] The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 27, 1990) wrote: “Philip Emeagwali, who took on an enormously difficult problem and, like most students working on Ph.D. dissertations, solved it alone, has won computation's top prize, captured in the past only by seasoned research teams … If his program can squeeze out a few more percentage points, it will help decrease U.S. reliance on foreign oil.” With his success, academic journals that formerly rejected his work began to sing his praises: “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,” wrote the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize Committee in the academic journal Software (May 1990). In the bimonthly news journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, mathematician Alan Karp wrote: "I have checked with several reservoir engineers who feel that his calculation is of real importance and very fast. His explicit method not only generates lots of megaflops, but solves problems faster than implicit methods. Emeagwali is the first to have applied a pseudo-time approach in reservoir modeling.” (SIAM News, May 1990) His success in using 64 binary-thousand processors gave credibility and renewed interest in his formerly rejected proposal to use 64 thousand far-flung computers to forecast the weather for the whole Earth. Because the topology of his rejected international network of computers was similar to, but predated that, of the Internet, it was rediscovered and called an “idea that was ahead of its time” and “a germinal seed of the Internet.” For his contributions, the book History of the Internet profiled him as an Internet pioneer, was voted one of the twenty innovators of the Internet, and CNN called him "A Father of the Internet." A measure of his impact is that he was rewarded with the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize (supercomputing's Nobel Prize) for his contributions which, in part, inspired the petroleum industry to purchase one in ten supercomputers. Emeagwali's use of 65,000 processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations, in part, inspired: Apple Computer to use his multiprocessing technology to manufacture its dual-processor Power Mac G4, which had a peak speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second; IBM to manufacture its $134.4 million supercomputer, which had a peak speed of 3.1 trillion calculations per second; IBM to announce its plan to manufacture a 65,000-processor supercomputer, which will have a peak speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second; and every supercomputer manufacturer to incorporate thousands of processors in their supercomputers. Each day, visitors to his Web site, emeagwali.com, view one billion bytes or the equivalent of one thousand books. Materials from his Web site are frequently reprinted in small newspapers across Africa. Another measure of his influence is that one million students have written biographical essays on him --- thousands wrote to thank him for inspiring them. President Bill Clinton called him a powerful role model for young people and used the phrase "another Emeagwali" to describe children with the potential to become computer geniuses. Emeagwali considers himself to be "a black scientist with a social responsibility to communicate science to the black diaspora." In other words, he has a dual sensibility of being deeply rooted in science while using it as a tool to remind his people in the Diaspora of where they have been and who they are. Dubbed a "renaissance man" by the media, he is admired not just for his enormous scientific contributions but for his deep and broad knowledge of literature and the arts. The media contacts him, daily, for interviews on issues as diverse as brain drain to Islamic fundamentalism to the future of the Internet. During his career, Emeagwali has received more than 100 prizes, awards and honors. These include the Computer Scientist of the Year Award of the National Technical Association (1993), Distinguished Scientist Award of the World Bank (1998), Best Scientist in Africa Award of the Pan African Broadcasting, Heritage and Achievement Awards (2001), Gallery of Prominent Refugees of the United Nations (2001), profiled in the book Making It in America as one of "400 models of eminent Americans," and in Who's Who in 20th Century America. In a televised speech, as president, Bill Clinton described Emeagwali as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.” His wife, Dale, was born in Baltimore, was educated at Georgetown University School of Medicine, conducted research at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Michigan, and taught at the University of Minnesota. In 1996, she won the Scientist of the Year Award of the National Technical Association for her cancer research. They both live near Washington, D.C. with their 11-year-old son. The article reproduced above is courtesy BWP Newswire, and published February 2007. You can read it online via: http://www.blackwebportal.com/wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=558 |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:54pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Still on this Emeagwali issue (please forgive me if I seem to be talking too much about him), I must say these, hoping that they will prick your conscience: 1. To start with, Emeagwali was born to very poor parents in Akure, in 1954. He could not attend regular school, and with such a poor background, he was destined for poverty in Nigeria (cf www.blackinventor.com). He had to go to school on private study. And through this, he was able to get a basic education, and subsequently a scholarship to Oregon State University to study math. Significance of 1: The above tell us something true: We live in a limiting society. This society could not discover Emeagwali, because it was too distracted with Civil Wars and mediocrity. It had to be the USA to pick him up and polish him, else we may never have heard of Emeagwali today. Now think of the many people you know who have talents but are wasting away, here in Nigeria, because they are poor. Recall as well what David Pelzer, author of A Child Called It, said: 'And I came to realize that America was the one nation wherein a person could come from less than humble beginnings and make it to the top from within.' 2. Next, Emeagwali studies wide in the fields of mathematics, engineering and computing. He did a lot of professional work and graduate study. He went through a lot, also as a result of his being black. He created a very fast computer, faster than most have ever been. Then there came a year, he submitted his supercomputer to the Gordon Bell people; it was said that his work was the second fastest, and the real fastest was made by a research team at Mobil. But that research team had already won a prize that day, and the Gordon Bell people did not want to give them two prizes, so they declared that Emeagwali had the fastest computer, and they gave him the prize. Significance of 2: I do not think that Emeagwali would have won the Gordon Bell prize if he was not a genius. Even though some people say he did not make the fastest, but only the second fastest, history has it that he was awarded for the fastest. Besides, he worked alone, and those that they say made the fastest were a team. And he was black. 3. Emeagwali has spoken severally all over the world, and has worked for the most prestigious institutions in the USA, even though he is black. Time Magazine said, and I quote: 'The Web owes much of its significance to Emeagwali.' Also, CNN (Cable News Network) said, and I quote: Emeagwali is a Father of the Internet'. Not only that, Bill Clinton himself called him 'one of the great minds of the information age'. Emeagwali is also very very wealthy. Significance of 3: Despite the fact that the man is black, he has achieved a lot. There are many white people who say that black people cannot achieve much, but people like Oprah, Emeagwali, Obama, and others are proving them wrong. We need more of them. Sadly, it is we black people that sometimes run one another down. Instead of us to come together and praise our own, we are consumed by envy, and help the white man to being them down. Indeed, many times the white man does not lift a finger; he just watches us bring one another down, and he sits, leg-crossed and arms-folded at laughs to his heart's delight. Overall lesson: LOVE THOSE WHO DO WELL. IT HELPS. DO NOT ENVY. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:04pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The early life of Philip Emeagwali seemed destined for poverty in his native land of Nigeria. He was the oldest of nine children and his father, who worked as a nurse's aide, earned only a modest income. As a result, at age 14, Philip was forced to drop out of school in Onitsha. Because he had shown such great promise in mathematics, his father encouraged him to continue learning at home. Every evening, Philip's father would quiz him in math as well as other subjects. He would ask these questions in a rapid-fire manner, prompting Philip to think quickly on his feet. Eventually, Philip was tasked to answer 100 question in an hour, which to his father's delight, he succeeded in. Unable to attend school, Philip instead journeyed to the public library, spending most of his day there. He sped through books appropriate for his age and moved up to college-level material, studying mathematics, chemistry, physics and English. After a period of study, he applied to take the General Certificate of Education exam (a high-school equivalency exam) through the University of London and he passed it easily. Having achieved this success, he decided to apply to colleges in Europe and the United States and at age 17 was offered a scholarship by Oregon State University in the United States. He began his studies at Oregon State in 1974 and received a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics in 1977. He then moved to the Washington, D.C. area and received a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering from George Washington University in 1981 and a second Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1986. During the same period of time he received another Master's Degree from George Washington University, this time in Ocean, Coastal and Marine Engineering. He worked for a period of time as a civil engineer in Maryland and Wyoming, but his real success was yet to come. In 1987, the Emeagwali was accepted into the University of Michigan's Civil Engineering doctoral program and received a doctoral fellowship. At the time, in the United States, the government and many in academia contended that there were 20 Grand Challenges that faced the world in the areas of science and engineering. One of these challenges was petroleum reservoir simulation. In the petroleum industry, oil is generally found within underground rocks in reservoirs. The oil is extracted by drilling down into the rock and extracting the oil but because of the uncertainties of locating the pocket of oil, industry experts could only confidently hope to extract 10 percent of the oil within a known reservoir and that was done by utilizing supercomputers (which could cost upwards of $30 million) to simulate oil fields and anticipate the flow of the oil therein. In order to extract the oil, water or gas must be pumped into the field to force it upwards. Unfortunately, if done incorrectly, the oil could be forced into an inaccessible pocket and the natural oil flow could be interrupted, thus forcing the oil company to commence drilling again, at considerable expense. Emeagwali, having grown up in Nigeria which boasted grand oil reservoirs., understood that at the time, with oil selling for $20.00 per barrel, just a one percent increase in production from a 20 billion barrel field would result in another $400 million yield, a staggering amount. As part of his doctoral dissertation, he decided to take on the challenge. Emeagwali had read a 1922 science fiction article written by Lewis Fry Richardson entitled "Weather prediction by numerical processes" which suggested using 64,000 mathematicians do weather forecasting for the entire planet. Based on this article and on the work of German mathematician Paul Fillunger and Russian mathematician B. K. Risenkampf (in partial differential equations), Emeagwali determined that rather than using a supercomputer that used 8 processors, he would instead use 65,536 microprocessors (a microprocessor is basically what is found in desktop computers) to work the necessary computations. He based his decision on an old premise that a large number of chickens, if coordinated in strength and efficiency, will be able to do a better job than a small number of oxen. Thus, his 65,536 microprocessors would work together as chickens and theorized that the could outwork the eight processor (eight oxen) supercomputer. He originally theorized that the 64,000 processors could be used instead of mathematicians to predict the Earth' weather, but then decided to turn his theory towards the petroleum reservoir simulation.The obvious problem was how to gain access to that many computers and how to connect them. Instead he turned to the Connection Machine, a device developed by a company called Thinking Machines. The machine was designed such that it could contain within it up to 65,536 microprocessors interconnected, each with its own RAM and each processing one bit at a time. Emeagwali found that there was a Connection Machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (NANL) in New Mexico. Scientists were having a difficult time programming the computer to simulate nuclear blasts and it sat unused for much of the time. He submitted an application and NANL approved his use the their Connection Machine which he accessed remotely through the Internet from Michigan. After setting the parameters, Emeagwali ran his program and was astounded when the machine was able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second. The program had also determined the amount of oil in the simulated reservoir, the direction of flow and the speed at which it was flowing at each point. The impact of his experiment was immense. By discovering a practical application for utilizing supercomputers, he opened up a whole new market for them. Just seven years later it was estimated that 10 percent of massively parable computers had been purchased by the petroleum industry. Furthermore, it provided the theory of connecting computer around the world to provide a scalable, network through which to share and process information. Using this concept in conjunction with the existing internet backbone, the world wide web would emerge as an new entity for providing communications and enhancing commerce. In 1989, in acknowledgement of his discovery, Emeagwali was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Gordon Bell Prize which recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. Encouraged by his success and newly found status, Emeagwali moved forward with further research and provided new theories and concepts for computer design. Many of these were based on the idea that computers were simply an extension of the function of nature and thus that they should be designed based on nature. One of his theories is aimed at exploring long-term effects of greenhouse gases and global warming. Emeagwali offered a new design for a computer based on honeycombs. Based on the theory of tessellated models, Emeagwali broke the Earth's atmosphere into sections that resembled honeycombs created by bees. He reasoned that bees are able to use the most efficient methods to develop their honeycombs and that following principles of honeycomb design in a computer will allow it to work in an optimal fashion. He believes that his hyperball computer will allow for weather forecasting far into the future and for simulated global warming trends in order to address the problem. In addition to the aforementioned concept, Emeagwali have created hundreds more. He has lectured around the world and been lauded by for his achievements. He was named the Pioneer of the Year by the National Society of Black Engineers, as well as Scientist of the Year in 1991, the Computer Scientist of the Year by America's National Technical Association in 1993 along with dozens of other tributes. For someone who was born with little, Philip Emeagwali was able to achieve a lot and has served as an inspiration to millions of people, especially in Nigeria. Former United States President Bill Clinton summed up worldwide sentiment by declaring Emeagwali "One of the great minds of the Information Age." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above article is published by www.blackinventor.com. You can access it via this link: http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/philipemeagwali.html |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:13pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
What we need to move Africa forward is people who are willing to think positively, and forget totally about envy. When we have geniuses who are concerned about technology and art, and progress, and less about envy and witchcraft, then we may move forward. Simple. We need more of these: 1. Emeagwali 2. Oprah 3. Ben Carson 4. Farah Gray 5. Nelson Mandela 6. Erastus Akingbola 7. Cecilia Ibru 8. Okonjo Iweala 9. Kenny Ogungbe 10. Desmund Tutu 11. Condoleezza Rice 12. Barack Obama 13. Doris akunyili 14. Michael Jordan 15. Chinua Achebe 16. Wole Soyinka 17. Chike Obi 18. Francis Arinze 19. Yvonne Chaka Chaka 20. Muhammad Ali 21. Jim Ovia 22. Aliko Dangote 23. Dehinde Fernandez 24. Mariam Makeba 25. Alice walker We need more intelligent and envy-free people. We need a new Africa. We need a new you and me. We need all of us, renewed; we need a blessed black nation, within the African continent, and in diaspora. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:19pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Behold The Man!
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Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:23pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Forgive me for talking too much, but read this as well: P H I L I P E M E A G W A L I A C a l c u l a t i n g M o v e It's hard to say who invented the Internet. There were many mathematicians and scientists who contributed to its development; computers were sending signals to each other as early as the 1950s. But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali, a math whiz who came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once. Emeagwali was born to a poor family in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954. Despite his brain for math, he had to drop out of school because his family, who had become war refugees, could no longer afford to send him. As a young man, he earned a general education certificate from the University of London and later degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan. At Michigan, he participated in the scientific community's debate on how to simulate the detection of oil reservoirs using a supercomputer. Growing up in an oil-rich nation and understanding how oil is drilled, Emeagwali decided to use this problem as the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Borrowing an idea from a science fiction story about predicting the weather, Emeagwali decided that rather than using 8 expensive supercomputers he would employ thousands of microprocessors to do the computation. The only step left was to find 8 machines and connect them. (Remember, it was the 80s.) Through research, he found a machine called the Connection Machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which had sat unused after scientists had given up on figuring out how to make it simulate nuclear explosions. The machine was designed to run 65,536 interconnected microprocessors. In 1987, he applied for and was given permission to use the machine, and remotely from his Ann Arbor, Michigan, location he set the parameters and ran his program. In addition to correctly computing the amount of oil in the simulated reservoir, the machine was able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second. The crux of the discovery was that Emeagwali had programmed each of the microprocessors to talk to six neighboring microprocessors at the same time. The success of this record-breaking experiment meant that there was now a practical and inexpensive way to use machines like this to speak to each other all over the world. Within a few years, the oil industry had seized upon this idea, then called the Hyperball International Network creating a virtual world wide web of ultrafast digital communication. The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet. Since then, he has won more than 100 prizes for his work and Apple computer has used his microprocessor technology in their Power Mac G4 model. Today he lives in Washington with his wife and son. "The Internet as we know it today did not cross my mind," Emeagwali told TIME. "I was hypothesizing a planetary-sized supercomputer and, broadly speaking, my focus was on how the present creates the future and how our image of the future inspires the present." The article is read online, following this link: http://www.time.com/time/2007/blackhistmth/bios/04.html Let us celebrate our stars. ![]() ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:28pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Let us also pray for Nigeria, that she may one day be able to keep her geniuses at home. I wrote this for your pleasure: Grim Economy Grim economy chokes the citizenry Prevents freedom from fiscal gloom A third world state is strung abase Hating progress, shrieking technology Vast farmlands, cattle in droves Dark jungles, oil-drenched rivers Are left untapped High-handed public officers Skirmish for vain reward Exchanging popular wealth For private enjoyment Unchecked Feral relish of the common coffers Bought by the beguiled vote At yesterday’s charade Over rigged balloting And the swearing-in ceremony Succeeded by bottles of wine at the club Shared by the incumbent and his predecessor Are wrought by debased hegemony Conscience is stilled and Hungry rulers call in the white investors Expatriate domination Of blue-chip firms Pay lip service to democracy In dog-eat-dog society Policies on chopsticks Bestridden by gluttonous aristocrats Squelch intelligent youth, Deflate swelling morale Sag racing heads; No money is given And there is no other support Not even the push afforded by good example Or the calm prodding by hopeful achievement Fed to willing protégés Searching still for mentoring To fill the want of hope Created by the dragging day Ever caught regressing for the worse But nature is known to abhor a vacuum And ambitious, educated youth Hence haste to better lands. Enjoy! |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:30pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
May this 2008 be happy for all of us, and may it be a year of actualizing our dreams. My first manuscript is now being reviewed by the publishers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I hope it turns out well. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:33pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
I'll talk to you all tomorrow. Goodbye for today. I love you all. ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:41pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Bye for now. One love. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by loparino: 6:04pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
Kuwena, this is a good piece, I think you are coming back to yourself, One more thing, nobody is envying ya, get the stigma feeling off yourself, me luv ya, too! |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 7:44pm On Jan 19, 2008 |
I came online again. By the way, David, your blogsite is cool. ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:17pm On Jan 20, 2008 |
We have the grace to see another week. Today is Sunday, a day on which we rest and prepare for the next. I stumbled on this on intranet mail: I Love My Job! The Lost Dr Seuss Poem I love my job, I love the pay! I love it more and more each day. I love my boss, she is the best! I love her boss and all the rest. I love my office and its location, I hate to have to go on vacation. I love my furniture, drab and gray, And piles of paper that grow each day! I think my job is really swell, There's nothing else I love so well. I love to work among my peers, I love their leers, and jeers, and sneers. I love my computer and its software; I hug it often though it won't care. I love each program and every file. I'd love them more if they worked a while. I'm happy to be here. I am. I am. I'm the happiest slave of the Firm, I am. I love this work, I love these chores. I love the meetings with deadly bores. I love my job - I'll say it again - I even love those friendly men. Those friendly men who've come today, In clean white coats to take me away! For those who love their jobs as the writer seems to, I rejoice with them. For those who are hanging on by a thin thread, I sympathize. I hope that one day all of us will find what exactly we were made to do on this earth, because I know for a fact that a life without purpose is painful. But then, have we really suffered most? What of those in prison, or on hospital beds, or without a limb or two? Even then, have we enjoyed the most? What of those in palaces, or living in untold luxury, who have never endured any pain? We are who we are by philosophical accident. We will be who we will by choice. Have a blessed week. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:20pm On Jan 20, 2008 |
SOMETHING FOR YOUR RELAXATION, TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY. Let's face it: English is a stupid language. There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger, and neither Pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England; French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square and guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth. If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat? Why do people recite at a play yet play at a recital? Why do people Park on driveways and drive on parkways. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down and in which you fill in a form by filling it out. And a bell is only heard once it goes! People, not computers, invented English and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which of course isn't a race at all). That is why when the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible. And why is it that when I wind up my watch it starts but when I wind up this story it ends? And there's more, Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist? Why are "a wise man" and "a wise guy opposites"? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible? Why isn't 11 pronounced onety-one, since 22 is pronounced twenty-two? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed? Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure? If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes" ![]() BECAUSE OF ALL THESE DISPARITIES, I DECIDED TO BE SPEAKING YORUBA ANYWHERE I GO. EVEN THE LAST TIME I TRAVELLED TO LONDON AND HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH PRINCE CHARLES, I SPOKE TO HIM IN YORUBA LANGUAGE. HE WAS SO DELIGHTED THAT HE ASKED ME TO TEACH HIM IGBO. YOU CAN IMAGINE, , , When Insults Had Class, He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway ) "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." Groucho Marx "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." -- Oscar Wilde "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend, if you have one." George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill followed by Churchill's response: "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one." Winston Churchill "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" -- Mark Twain "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." Stephen Bishop "He had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." John Bright "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." Irvin S. Cobb "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." -- Samuel Johnson "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Mae West Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde Subject: The E-mail A man checked into a hotel in Pretoria . There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife. However, he accidentally typed the wrong e-mail address, and without realizing his error, he sent the e-mail. Meanwhile , somewhere in Cape Town a widow had just arrived home from her husband's funeral. The widow decided to check her e-mail, expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she fainted. The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which Read: To: My Loving Wife Subject: I've arrived Date: June 3, 2005 I know you're surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now, and you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones. I've just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was. P.s. It is damn hot down here!! |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 1:44pm On Jan 20, 2008 |
When I look at this forum, called Jobs, I cry and I laugh at the same time. I cry because this unemployment thing is very very serious. A lot of people may not have grasped the seriousness of it yet, but I can assure you that it is very serious. There are people out there who are losing faith in themselves, who are almost going mad even, because they have to sit home doing nothing, donkey years after finishing school. It is serious; and still many of them are not trained in order to learn the skills with which to so something meaningful with their lives; and every where they turn, someone wants to rip them off. It is such a pity. But this is the situation in which we find ourselves. Whence cometh our help? The much needed one. ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by kuwena(m): 2:49pm On Jan 20, 2008 |
By the way, David, would you be kind enough to give me your email address or phone number, or both, so that I could be contacting you once in a while for guidance on what I am doing? Would this be too much to ask of a Nigerian brother in the USA? Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by opokonwa(m): 7:56am On Jan 21, 2008 |
Sometimes, the best way to win a fight is not to get involved at all. And sometimes, the best way not to keep malice is to bare your mind ![]() ![]() ![]() After my last post against Kuwena, the Spirit of Peace left me. My initial reactions to that post of his was one of shock ![]() ![]() ![]() I have never heard my family depicted in such a bad and shocking way. My mild reactions were simply out of shock; I had my back against the wall ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, I was so irritated and shocked that I left the thread for some days. (as tommyex rightly observed ![]() I could not stand the insult. In fact, I thought I could take some time off the thread, to cool off and perhaps, recover from the shock I felt. Instead, my feeling of shock was simply replaced by a feeling of rage. ![]() In coming back to defend my family honour and in an attempt to give a candid description of who I am and where I came from, I realised that I relentlessly went for the overkill. Family passion can be very dangerous ![]() I have since realised from this thread that there are a few things I can kill for. One is when my roots is desecrated upon. Nigeria is no heaven but it is my heaven on earth. Secondly, I can do worse when my family name is soiled. Some people on this thread can afford to abandon theirs and/or paint theirs black & blue but for me, blood is not only thicker than water, both have no comparism ![]() Thirdly, I can tripple-kill for my parents-sake. ![]() I realised that I hurt Kuwena more in that post than in any other post and in the process, I hurt myself too. The Spirit of Peace left me less than a second after I sent that post. I have a conscience that is still very active and does not spare me when I am wrong. I spent the rest of the weekend in silent regret for my actions and prayers to God for forgiveness. (even though I hung out with NLNG peeps.) I got a partial relief in the service on sunday morning; only a partial relief ![]() After I had prayed more feverently to God to forgive my actions on the thread. I wanna apologise to Kuwena not because what he did to me was right ![]() ![]() ![]() And that is why I say that sometimes, the best way to win a fight is not to get involved at all. And at other times, the best way not to keep malice is to bare your mind ![]() ![]() ![]() TWO ENDS OF A STICK. ![]() I am sorry Kuwena. Peace. |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by opokonwa(m): 8:34am On Jan 21, 2008 |
Last weekend was eventful. Hung out (or rather 'in') with my Gs at Eko Hotel & Suites from Friday evening till their checking out/departure on Saturday evening. My arrival at Crazy Kenosky's lounge, a few phone calls and Gs started pouring in for perhaps, a few final moment with Opoks! ![]() First on the list was Skeelolo!, soon followed by tall Idosa ![]() ![]() Steve-ray made his appearance (after the 'bones' issue ![]() We were soon joined by Biolabee, his lovely fiancee Tunrayo and a friend ![]() LD (for short ![]() Patrick made a late but accidental appearance. Most Gs were either very busy with their trains or family members; being their last night in Nigeria till six-eight months time, I didn't blame them. ![]() I missed my Guy, Chukky. ![]() We soon went into a heated debate about Nairaland, Which Way NLNG?, Kuwena, Opoks!, the feud, lessons learnt, impressions, etc. Everyone had an opinion about everything and everybody. It was really a privilege knowing what people thought about you (or your actions) outside the thread. And being in a similar position the 2nd time in a row, I really felt privileged, as the opinions were largely very candid. ![]() Skeelolo made a comment that struck me more than everyone else's; "Which Way NLNG? We already know by now 'Which Way NLNG?' as NLNG has taken those they wanted to take, dropped those they wanted to drop, so wat's the fuss about?" It put into proper perspective that Kuwena's question on page one of this thread has been answered. So what's all the fuss about? What's all the posts about? The fights, posts about America, complexities, bodily descriptions, insults, etc? It made me think; "It should now be 'Which Way You?' or 'Which Way I?'" ![]() ![]() What are your plans for 2008? Have you started living yours? I started chasing mine since last week and even before then For me, Which Way NLNG? has metarmorphosized into the many friends and admirers I have made on the thread, have met outside the thread or those that I am yet to meet. 'Which Way NLNG?' is about Brotherhood, about Friendships and not just about making it to NLNG. And that is what took me to Eko Hotel & Suites last weekend. ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by tommyex(m): 3:04pm On Jan 21, 2008 |
Uncle OPOKS, welcome back oo,Safe journey n goodluck to the Boro folks,guess you there now Its good we back to peace now,good maturity from every1 involved. have a nice wk and support d Super eagles ![]() |
Re: Which Way Nlng? by bobbyan(m): 3:14pm On Jan 21, 2008 |
Congra Tula Tions!!!!! Congra Tula Tions!!!!! Congra Tula Tions!!!!! Congra Tula Tions!!!!! to all you guys, at last you pple have left for Europe am so deeply happy for all of you i wish every one of best of luck Amen. @opooks Thanks man for the updating, |
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