Note from the website administrator:- This is not a racist website. Au contraire, this is about debunking one man's false claims to fame, who perchance happens to be a black Nigerian. Please go through the information contained in this website, and if you are convinced that there is an honest mistake somewhere,  email me about it or feel free to express your opinions in the guestbook below. There are a set of links included about the genuine achievements of Africans, who are a great people, equal to the world's best in any field of human endeavor.
 

I will only provide the links to certain websites for the moment; later on, there will be more information added. Contact information for the webmaster is provided at the end of this webpage.
 

Excellent articles by Chioma K. Ezeilo, M.Sc.:
 

Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the Abuse of Cyber pseudo-Anonymity: Part II "Father of the Internet"

A Footnote to Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the Abuse of Cyber pseudo-Anonymity: Part II "Father of the Internet"

Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the Abuse of Cyber pseudo-Anonymity: Part 1 A Certain "Biafra House"
 

Try also the following websites:

Emeagwali myths

Article on Science Daily

Emeagwali never got a Ph.D. - and an article on the court's decision
 

Certain important points to be noted about Philip Emeagwali:
 

- Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell Prize for the price/performance category in 1989, even though the team from Mobil and Thinking Machines Corporation topped the price/performace category! The judges awarded the price/performace prize to Emeagwali only because the Mobil and Thinking Machines Corporation also won the prize for absolute performance of 6 GFlops - faster than Emeagwali's speed of 3.1 GFLOPS - and the judges did not want to award two prizes to the same team!

- Emeagwali has no patents in the USA! Do the search at the US patent office !

- Emeagwali has published no papers in any journal of computer science prior to 2000! What and where exactly is the "pioneering" formula that he claims to have concocted?!
 

There are several prizes awarded for excellence in computing research, the most prestigious among them being the Turing award, Goedel prize and the Rolf Nevanlinna prize, none of which was won by Emeagwali!

The Gordon Bell prize is never called the "Nobel prize of computing" by any computer science professor or journal ! All references to it being the Nobel prize of computing have been by Philip Emeagwali himself!

Just to get an idea of the kind of prizes that can be won by computer scientists, visit the Microsoft Researchers page.

History Channel's celebration of Black History Month
 

Black Inventors
 

African-American Mathematicians
 

Great African Kings
 
 

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