Philip Emeagwali's video: The Early Childhood of Philip Emeagwali Early Years in Akure Nigeria Teenage Years in Oregon

I'm @Philip Emeagwali. To enter into the unknown world of the massively parallel processing supercomputer, required that I begin sequential processing supercomputing and begin it on June 20, 1974 in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. I began supercomputing when I was only nineteen years old. I began supercomputing at 1800 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, Oregon, United States. When I began supercomputing, I was new in the United States, having arrived on March 24, 1974 after receiving a scholarship letter that was dated September 10, 1973. Then and now, and excluding athletes only a dozen or so Nigerian teenagers were invited each year to study in the United States and offered a four-year academic scholarship to do so. As an aside, many of the famous computer pioneers of today were also teenagers in 1973, and were born at about the same time —of August 23, 1954— that I was born. I was born in Akure in the heart of Yoruba Land in the Western Region of the British West African colony of Nigeria. I was born in Yoruba Land to Igbo parents who grew up in Onitsha, Igbo Land, of south eastern Nigeria and lived in Kano, Hausa Land, in the late 1940s. My father was educated, for the six years inclusive from 1942 to ’47, at Christ the King College, Onitsha, in the southeastern region of Nigeria. My father left Kano, at age 29, to come to Akure in 1950 to work as a nurse in the small hospital in Akure. In the early 1950s, my father’s salary of five pounds a month supported a dozen extended family members both in Akure and Onitsha, Nigeria. I was born in a Boy’s Quarter that was at the junction of Okemeso Street and Oba Adesida Road, Akure, Nigeria. I was born on Monday under the sign of Virgo. The U.S. president, on the day I was born, was Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican. Since Nigeria was then a British colony, Queen Elizabeth the Second, was the Head of State of Nigeria. The Governor-General of Nigeria on the day that I was born, Sir John Macpherson, represented Queen Elizabeth. When I was born, there were five adults sharing a tiny room and a tiny parlour, namely, my father Nnaemeka James Emeagwali, my mother Iyanma Agatha Emeagwali, my aunt Nkemdilim Grace Azuokwu, my cousin Vincent Emeagwali, and my cousin Charles Emeagwali. Aunt Nkemdilim came from Onitsha three days after I was born and on August 26, 1954. Aunt Nkemdilim came for three-month ine omugor. Steve Jobs was nineteen years old then and lived an hour’s drive from Corvallis, Oregon, and lived in Portland, Oregon. Bill Gates was nineteen years old then and lived three hour’s drive from Corvallis, Oregon and lived in the border state of Washington, United States. 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 180913 1 4 of 7