Who is Philip Emeagwali? | Famous Computer Scientists | African Inventors and their Inventions
I'm Philip Emeagwali at http://emeagwali.com. I am often asked: “Who is Philip Emeagwali?”
“I’m not exactly sure,”
I answered.
Then someone wrote that:
“Philip Emeagwali
is a polymath
that was trained for sixteen years
and, therefore, he can solve
interdisciplinary scientific problems
that a mathematician
that was trained for only eight years
in mathematics alone
could not solve.”
It’s not arrogance for me to say that
my scientific lectures
posted online at emeagwali dot com
demonstrated my command of materials.
You don’t see a surgeon
going into the surgery room
with a book titled
“How to do surgery.”
Yet, every speaker
in every scientific conference
cling on to his power points
as if it was a matter of life and death.
The reason they must use power points
is that they lack
the command of their materials.
In contrast, I have never used power points
in my scientific lectures.
And at the end of each lecture,
the audience stand as one
to give me a standing ovation
and did so because I have
the command of my materials
that, in turn, could only come
from a deep bench of ideas and knowledge.
To be the lone wolf, in the 1980s,
and at the farthest frontier
of supercomputing
demanded a command of materials
and, in particular, a command of
65,536 processors
that were needed to discover
the fastest supercomputer.
I commanded materials
across the branch of physics
called fluid dynamics.
I commanded materials
across the branch of calculus
called partial differential equations.
I commanded materials
across the branch of algebra
called numerical linear algebra.
I commanded materials
across the branch of computing
called massively parallel processing.
You can verify my command of materials by doing a one-by-one, side-by-side,
and videotape-by-videotape comparisons
of Philip Emeagwali
with the videotapes of the likes of
Albert Einstein,
including Albert Einstein himself.
My supreme confidence
that seems like arrogance
arose because
the likes of Albert Einstein
don’t have the aura of invincibility
that they had
when I was trained for only eight years
like they were.
I’m confident
because I’m eight years ahead
of the likes of theoretical physicists,
such as Albert Einstein.
I’m confident
because I’m eight years ahead
of computational physicists.
I was confident
because I was the only person
in the decade of the 1980s
that was at the farthest frontier
of supercomputing.
Only one lone wolf
could be at that farthest frontier
and I was that programmer, period.
My confidence against the likes of
Albert Einstein
was the confidence
a sixteen-year-old boy has
when challenged to wrestle against
an eight-year-old girl.
Who is Philip Emeagwali?
I’m four in ten parts
a mathematician.
I’m three in ten parts
a physicist.
I’m three in ten parts
a supercomputer scientist.
Who is Philip Emeagwali?
I’m a scientist
that is the subject of school reports.
I was an astronomer
who declined an astronomer position
in Washington, D.C.
I was an astronaut candidate hopeful
who was declined by NASA.
I was an engineer
that worked on nine US government dams
and their reservoirs and powerplants
that were along the North Platte River
in the State of Wyoming, United States.
I was a geologist
that pushed the frontiers
of extreme-scale computations
in sub-surface flow modeling.
Yet, I don’t have a deep yearning
for engineering or geology or astronomy.
I have given up on my 1970s and ‘80s ambition to fly into outer space.
The reason I discovered how to solve
that grand challenge problem
of supercomputing
and solved it alone
was that I was trained
in the United States
for the sixteen years
onward of March 24, 1974.
I experimentally programmed supercomputers,
and did so continuously
and onward
of June 20, 1974.
For information about Philip Emeagwali,
http://emeagwali.com
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