Black Inventor Thread

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Meet Philip Emeagwali, the father of the internet. Here are some of his achievements and quotes.

>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."


>One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

>Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

http://emeagwali.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali