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
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Donita Brown
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Donita Brown
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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