USA Africa Dialogue Series - DIALOGUE WITH ANIK STAHL,MICROSOFT REPRESENTATIVE, ON ASSERTIONS ON PHILIP EMEAGWALI ON "CRABBY CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH"

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From: toyin adepoju <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com>
Date: 20 October 2010 10:49
Subject: ENQUIRY ABOUT ASSERTIONS ON PHILIP EMEAGWALI ON "CRABBY CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH"
To: crabby@microsoft.com


Dear Annik Stahl,

Good morning.

I am writing this letter to request from you the sources of your information on the following assertions about the Nigerian scientist Philip Emeagwali.Even though your efforts to present the achievements of Black scientists is appreciated,there has emerged significant concern over the fact that most of the claims made by and about Philip Emeagwali are unsubstantiated by independent scientific  or industry sources.

These are the assertions it would be helpful  if you could provide your sources for:

1.Recipient of the esteemed Gordon Bell Prize for developing the fastest supercomputer software in the world

2.Emeagwali has worked as a lecturer at both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (the world's largest technical organization) and the Association for Computing Machinery (the world's oldest computer society); as a research fellow in the High Performance Computing program at the Army Research Laboratory; as a civil engineer at the United States Bureau of Reclamation; and as a distinguished lecturer at universities and institutes all over the world.

3.Emeagwali's use of those thousands of processors to perform those 3.1 billions of calculations inspired:

• Apple Computer to use his multiprocessing technology to manufacture its dual-processor Power Mac G4.
• IBM to manufacture its $134.4 million supercomputer, which had a peak speed of 3.1 trillion calculations per second.
• Every supercomputer manufacturer to incorporate thousands of processors in their machines.

4. "Emeagwali, fearful that the people at Los Alamos wouldn't accept his proposal to work with this machine if they knew of his African background, submitted his proposal from Michigan. He went on to remotely program the 65,536 processors in New Mexico while living in Michigan."

Thank you very much.

Toyin Adepoju

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