Philip Emeagwali's video: How I Invented a New Internet Philip Emeagwali Inventions What is Philip Emeagwali Famous For

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. I was in the news headlines because I experimentally discovered that the impossible-to-compute is, in fact, possible-to-compute. A scientist becomes famous when he or she creates new knowledge, or makes a discovery or an invention, that creates new wealth and that makes the world a better place. For me, Philip Emeagwali, I defined solving the toughest problems arising at the frontier of engineering knowledge as the science and technology of using my knowledge of extreme-scale algebra, abstract calculus, computational physics, and the massively parallel processing supercomputer and using that knowledge in a never-before-seen way and using that knowledge to solve extreme-scale initial-boundary value mathematical problems and using that knowledge that help build better bridges across my ancestral hometown of Onitsha (Nigeria) or to help design faster airplanes, safer ships, safer nuclear powerplants, and even more fuel efficient cars. The now ubiquitous technology of the massively parallel processing supercomputer that was scorned and rejected in the 1940s through ‘80s is used by practicing engineers and used to increase their productivity and used to reduce their time-to-market. A teacher asked her students: “What is Philip Emeagwali famous for?” I answered: “The riddle of parallel processing was experimentally solved by Philip Emeagwali in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, and experimentally solved at 8:15 in the morning of Tuesday the Fourth of July 1989 that was the U.S. Independence Day.” That invention was my rock-solid proof—and not a hunch—that parallel processing makes computers faster. Doing many things at once, or supercomputing in parallel, became a sure-fire way to increase the speed of all modern supercomputers. My invention of the parallel processing supercomputer was my first major breakthrough in the world of science and technology. That invention was the milestone that put the name Philip Emeagwali into school reports. I experimentally discovered all the parallel processed speedup they was to discover. It is often said that the invention of the massively parallel processing supercomputer is the single most transformative technology and the biggest advance in physics since Newton, Galileo. To Invent Demands Genius, Not Luck To invent a new computer or a never-before-seen internet demands genius, not luck or serendipity. I had no serendipitous invention of how to massively parallel process and how to compute across a new internet that is a new global network of millions upon millions of tightly-coupled processors that are equal distances apart from each other. I visualized my small copy of the Internet correctly. I visualized that never-before-seen internet a priori. My theoretical visualization enabled me to experimentally discover that the shape of the cube in the sixteenth dimensional hyperspace will give my new internet regular form and freedom. Each processor within my small copy of my new Internet communicated via emails and along sixteen mutually orthogonal directions and along as many dimensions of my imagined sixteen dimensional universe. I visualized those sixteen directions as mutually perpendicular and embedded within my imaginary sixteen-dimensional universe. Each processor within my small copy of the Internet communicates in sixteen directions and communicated by sending and receiving emails to and from its sixteen nearest-neighboring processors. My epiphany was my discovery that to execute the fastest computation, the deepest source of the massively parallel processing supercomputer’s computing power was not in its two-raised-to-power sixteen, or 64 binary thousand, tightly-coupled processors that actually computed. I theoretically and experimentally discovered that the deepest source of the power of the massively parallel processing supercomputer was in its sixteen times two-raised-to-power sixteen, or one binary million, short and regular email wires that did not compute. It took me sixteen years of massively parallel processing and supercomputing across a new global network of processors to fully understand that my new frontier of supercomputer knowledge was a new internet de facto, not a new computer per se. TOPICS: philip emeagwali father of the internet, philip emeagwali and the internet, Philip Emeagwali Father of the Internet, Philip Emeagwali Biography, Who invented the Internet?, history of the Internet, When was the Internet invented?, Who invented the Internet first?, Who created the Internet and why?, A Father of the Internet, Nigerian Scientist, African Inventors, black inventors, black inventions that changed the world, black inventions we use everyday, black African inventions, black inventions and discoveries, famous black American inventions, black inventions of the 21st century, inventions for black history month Philip Emeagwali 180913 2 6 of 8