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**timmybrown** · 02-07-2012, 05:57 AM

Philip Emeagwali is known by some as the "father of the interenet"
but of course thats the debatleble, nevertheless he has definately achieved great things and made great contributions to technology

That's more than debatable. From Wikipedia:

Emeagwali received a $1,000[3] 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for oil-reservoir modeling. He won in the "price/performance" category...Apart from the prize itself, there is no evidence that Emeagwali's work was ever accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, nor that it had any other lasting impact on the field of high-performance computing or the development of the Internet. Neither does he hold any recognized patents for his results.

Let's face it, there are very few significant African innovations although there are over a billion of Africans now. I think it is improbable that the major reason for that is some kind of discrimination or other inability in getting patents. Let's hope there will be many African achievements in the future as the educational level and living standards of Africans will rise. Until that, it's no use sinking into self-deception.

02-07-2012, 05:57 AM	#9
timmybrown Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 535 Senior Member	Philip Emeagwali is known by some as the "father of the interenet" but of course thats the debatleble, nevertheless he has definately achieved great things and made great contributions to technology That's more than debatable. From Wikipedia: Emeagwali received a $1,000[3] 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for oil-reservoir modeling. He won in the "price/performance" category...Apart from the prize itself, there is no evidence that Emeagwali's work was ever accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, nor that it had any other lasting impact on the field of high-performance computing or the development of the Internet. Neither does he hold any recognized patents for his results. Let's face it, there are very few significant African innovations although there are over a billion of Africans now. I think it is improbable that the major reason for that is some kind of discrimination or other inability in getting patents. Let's hope there will be many African achievements in the future as the educational level and living standards of Africans will rise. Until that, it's no use sinking into self-deception.
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