Over the past 15 years, many US and Canadian college campuses have asked famed pioneer of the Supercomputer and Internet, Philip Emeagwali, to speak on Africa Night, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and during Black History Month. Last year, he delivered a dozen high-profile keynote addresses at colleges and high-tech conferences around the United States. His speeches can be found on YouTube and are known to provoke an avalanche of commentary and debates on blogs, in newspapers and magazine articles, and in letters to editors around the world. Please review the info below and contact me for additional information. Regards, Donita Brown Booking Secretary 202-203-8724 801-640-9971 (fax) donita@emeagwali.com LONG BIOGRAPHY “An Unsung Hero” by TIME magazine www.time.com SHORT BIOGRAPHY Philip Emeagwali — war survivor, supercomputer pioneer, and according to readers of London-based New African magazine, history’s 35th greatest person of African descent — has been described by President Bill Clinton as “one of the great minds of the Information Age,” as well as “the Bill Gates of Africa.” He has been called “a father of the Internet” by CNN and TIME. Emeagwali won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing. SPEAKING STYLE Philip Emeagwali’s high-content presentations will be customized to fit with your event theme. Regardless of the type of event, you can count on Emeagwali to use his unique skills of creativity, metaphor and innovation, and the hard-won lessons …