What do you guys think about Philip Emeagwali? The true fath

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What do you guys think about Philip Emeagwali? The true father of the internet, a BLACK man from NIGERIA.

Some notable achievements of his besides creating the internet

>1974 Conceived 64,000 computers—3,000 square miles apart—around the
world, now called an internet.

>‘80s Attended 500 weekly scientific seminars. Invented two HyperBall internets, or hypercubes within hyperspheres.

>1989 The first and only lone and solitary programmer to program sixteen
supercomputers, each powered by up to two-to-power sixteen computers.

>1993 Critics noted that the idea of the black supercomputer genius in the movie Jurassic Park was taken from the Emeagwali story of the 1980s.

>1996 Voted Essence magazine's ten most beautiful men (June 1996)

>1997 Bloggers noted that the janitor-mathematician in the movie Good Will Hunting was copied after a true story of a black janitor (Emeagwali)

>2012 Google Most-Searched: For "African Father ...."

>2012 Google Most-Searched: black scientist and inventor

>2012 Google Most-Searched: For "Father of the Internet."


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