Meet the father of the internet.. Of course you never heard of him because he is from Africa and the main stream media wouldn’t want to brand the “creator of the internet” title to a African American man.

Philip Emeagwali, a computer scientist, is but one example. He uses his mathematical and computer expertise to develop methods for extracting more petroleum from oil fields.

In case you may have not known, it was his formula that used 65,000 separate computer processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989. That feat led to computer scientists comprehending the capabilities of supercomputers and the practical applications of creating a system that allowed multiple computers to communicate. He is recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet.

Supercomputers range in price from $30 million to $100 million, and computer companies had reservations about building them for fear few agencies would make such pricey purchases.


“At that time, the argument was, ‘We shouldn’t build computers that way because who can program them?’ ” said Emeagwali, who is also a civil engineer. “I answered that question by successfully programming them.”


Future applications for Emeagwali’s breakthroughs with the use of data generated by massively parallel computers include weather forecasting and the study of global warming. CNN
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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 Insti*ute 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.

Isn’t it funny how many of you never knew this before, when it has been published by major publications like Time and CNN just to name a few? Why hasn’t their been a documentary or any reference to his story in the history books our children read? Why is Africa so behind on internet connections when it was founded in Africa?

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I always tell my students about him to inspire them.

So an Igbo man created the internet?

EVILFOREST:
Your should endeavor to SPELL his tribe out.
No be only when BAD THING happen, people go upload “IGBO”.
UPLOAD every detail about him, at least for research and history purposes before another Tribe claims him under the NOSE of NDIGBO and BIAFRANS at large....

After all, NIGERIA has been a SHOPRITE all these years harboring many shops within its confines. So therefore, NIGERIA has got many countries within itself .

In other COUNTRIES, COUNTRY and PLACE of RESIDENCE come first before locality, but in NIGERIA, Family and TRIBE come first before this gridlock marriage called NIGERIA.

why do some Nigerians respond unintelligently to intelligent discourse?

@imagedoctor, why not attach a picture or two?

Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He neither designed the fastest nor the most cost effective computer... He was even the first runner up in the competition and since an individual or a team is not allowed to go home with two awards, the judges decided to give him an award as the first runner up.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

fiercehillz:
Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He never designed the fastest or most cost effective computer... He was the first runner up in the competition sef... Chai.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

For your big head now u make sense.. Your assertion is as senseless as you...

ikennamadu1:


For your big head now u make sense.. Your assertion is as senseless as you...

Tribal sentiment has blinded you completely... SMH... I have vowed not to insult anybody this period. At least I have a big head that is effective and free from self esteem issues... Please the internet you wrongly claim your blooda invented is still much in use...please make use of it and stop misinforming people biko.

Google denied

LazyGold:
Google denied

Thank you

He only developed an Oil Reservoir nothing even closer to the World Fastest computer and it was stated on his Wikipedia page

At first you guys said he invented the World Fastest Computer

But now you are saying he invented the Internet

fiercehillz:
Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He neither designed the fastest nor the most cost effective computer... He was even the first runner up in the competition and since an individual or a team is not allowed to go home with two awards, the judges decided to give him an award as the first runner up.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

cant you read ONE OF THE FATHERS we did comprehension in school nau English is not hard but using the brain is the real problem

Kingkun69:
cant you read ONE OF THE FATHERS we did comprehension in school nau English is not hard but using the brain is the real problem

He is not one of the fathers bros... Check Wikipedia for the complete list of "internet pioneers"... Shalom

fiercehillz:
Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He neither designed the fastest nor the most cost effective computer... He was even the first runner up in the competition and since an individual or a team is not allowed to go home with two awards, the judges decided to give him an award as the first runner up.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

Thank you.
Is this in a bid to promote a Nigerian tribe as great or what? Emeagwali is a phenomenon, but he never invented the internet. 'Internet' wasn't even a product of a single person. Many contributed to it and then largely the PhD works of the British Sir Tim Berners-Lee blew it open.
People just copy ignorance and spread it apace.

SMH, these people will never learn.

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fiercehillz:
Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He neither designed the fastest nor the most cost effective computer... He was even the first runner up in the competition and since an individual or a team is not allowed to go home with two awards, the judges decided to give him an award as the first runner up.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

Yo why you answering this bag of pooo OP is obviously making this post out of tribalism. He doesn't even know what HTTP means funny enough he made all his achievement with a computer someone already made since the 18's

Igbos and the way they hype their tribe
Even if the man created the internet the white still take the Glory

The first attempt at the idea called the internet was at the DOD (department of defence) and it was called ARPANET (The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) it was the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.

It was used to connect multiple computers in American universities. Tim berners lee is actually the name that should pop up when you're looking for a major contributor to the idea of the internet and he didn't even invent the internet this is a quote from him

I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta-da!—the World Wide Web[32] ... Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system

fiercehillz:
Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He neither designed the fastest nor the most cost effective computer... He was even the first runner up in the competition and since an individual or a team is not allowed to go home with two awards, the judges decided to give him an award as the first runner up.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

I Agree With You.....

The black man is great.

FACTS
1) All races evolved from the black race
2) The black race were the inventors of mathematics, Arts & paints,
3) Africa is the first home of humans
4) Africa introduced medicine to the world
5) Africans invented writing
6) Africans invented Architechture.

Stop bleaching your skin. Stop denying whom you are. Resist the brainwashing that Africans are inferior. It is a wicked lie!!

GreatrAnalyst:


Thank you.
Is this in a bid to promote a Nigerian tribe as great or what? Emeagwali is a phenomenon, but he never invented the internet. 'Internet' wasn't even a product of a single person. Many contributed to it and then largely the PhD works of the British Sir Tim Berners-Lee blew it open.
People just copy ignorance and spread it apace.

LazyGold:
He only developed an Oil Reservoir nothing even closer to the World Fastest computer and it was stated on his Wikipedia page

At first you guys said he invented the World Fastest Computer

But now you are saying he invented the Internet

LazyGold:
Google denied

fiercehillz:
Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He neither designed the fastest nor the most cost effective computer... He was even the first runner up in the competition and since an individual or a team is not allowed to go home with two awards, the judges decided to give him an award as the first runner up.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

Some of you are blinded by tribalism some of you simply can not comprehend what was posted.

fiercehillz:
Lie of the century...chai.


He has no connection, I repeat "no connection" with the internet... He neither designed the fastest nor the most cost effective computer... He was even the first runner up in the competition and since an individual or a team is not allowed to go home with two awards, the judges decided to give him an award as the first runner up.


The development of the internet started before he was born in the 1950s... He neither designed any model nor any protocol.

Your head is dier

biosilicon:








Some of you are blinded by tribalism some of you simply can not comprehend what was posted.

Lol keep swimming in your own pool of ignorance.

Darivie04:

Lol keep swimming in your own pool of ignorance.

I just feel sorry for you. Truly.

Sentiments Aside. The Dude Didn't Create The Internet. Let Us Call This What It Is. #OneNigeriaIsAllICraveFor

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