Philip Emeagwali's video: A Brief Note on the Struggles of Philip Emeagwali as a Black Scientist African American Physicists

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. In the 1980s, the massively parallel processing supercomputer was unfathomable and for that reason a president of an American university that had an annual research expenditure of one billion dollars and his five supercomputer experts threw my one thousand and fifty-seven [1,057]-page supercomputer research report into the trash. When a newspaper journalist writing about my invention came to interview those five supercomputer experts they couldn’t do the interview. The reason was that they never read or understood my supercomputer research report. So I was not taken seriously until The Computer Society of the IEEE—The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers— gave me the top prize in supercomputing. To put my dilemma in context, back in the 1980s, it was impossible for an all-white scientific jury to give me the top award in computer science. The award committees asked for my photograph or insisted on a face-to-face interview that will reveal the fact that I am black and African. In the 1980s, only one award committee did not demand my photograph. I won that award and it made the news headlines that a black African had won the top prize in supercomputing. The controversy prompted the award committee to change their rules and to demand a face-to-face lecture that, in turn, made it impossible for other black supercomputer scientists to win the top prize in supercomputing. To this day, the color of my skin gets more attention than the solution of my equations. In the 1980s and earlier and in the United States, white research mathematicians did not attend research seminars given by black research mathematicians. TOPICS black physicists, famous black physicists, famous black mathematicians, famous black computer scientist, African American physicists, African American Inventors, black history month, famous black inventors, Black Inventors, Black Scientists, Famous Engineers of the 21st Century, today, still alive, in history, black, African, Nigerian, African American Inventors and Engineers, African American engineers For information about Philip Emeagwali, http://emeagwali.com https://facebook.com/emeagwali https://twitter.com/emeagwali https://instagram.com/philipemeagwali https://flickr.com/philipemeagwali https://linkedin.com/in/emeagwali https://soundcloud.com/emeagwali https://youtube.com/emeagwali   Philip Emeagwali 180120 1 1 of 3A