Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Philip Emeagwali makes list of "20 notable black innovators in tech"

Quoting Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com>:Go,BLUE. MIchigan '56!

> "During his doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan in the
> 1980s, Philip Emeagwali researched how to simulate the detection of
> oil reservoirs through the use of computers. Originally from Nigeria,
> he knew more about oil drilling than many of his contemporaries, and
> he used more than 65,000 microprocessors instead of the proposed
> eight supercomputers, breaking computation speed records."
>  See the entire list here...
>
> It must be Black History Month, folks eager to demonstrate the
> obvious, that blacks are also super-achievers, put all sorts of stuff
> out there that can be debunked by simply googling... Emeagwali
> continues to lie his way through fame... ;-)
>
> http://saharareporters.com/report/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame
>
> - Ikhide
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