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Advocacy & Research for Unlimited Lifespans
Philip Emeagwali
Transcript of keynote lecture delivered by Emeagwali at conference of Black Data Processing Association, Augusta, Georgia, April 26, 2003. Enhanced with a photo essay.
EXCERPT:
If we can replace the entire brain, we can download it into the SuperBrain. And if we can download it into the SuperBrain, our descendants will merely exist as pure thoughts, electronic cockroaches or human algorithms.
Our descendants will have achieved digital immortality in 10,000 years.
"Already, we have imbedded our consciousness and intelligence into computers. Now that we have implanted our intelligence into computers, we are now figuring out how to imbed our computers into our brain. That is, how to imbed inanimate intelligence into animate ones." - Emeagwali
Complete Speech
The second and thrid parts of this lecture were delivered at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the University of Paris (France). The fourth part will be delivered at a later date.
Emeagwali is Top Scientist on the Internet
Climbs to the number-one spot as the world's most searched-for contemporary scientist.
April 7, 2003 9:43 a.m.
Source: Donita Brown
(NEW YORK, NY) -- When a British mensa society voted Emeagwali as the "smartest man alive," many in the media asked: Who is Emeagwali? How come he is not famous? (Sunday Herald, Glasgow, May 5, 2002)
To settle this question, we asked: Who is the world's top scientist? Is it Britain's most famous physicist Stephen Hawkings? Is it America's most famous scientist Stephen Jay Gould? Is it computer pioneer and Nobel laureate Jack Kilby?
More: http://emeagwali.com...scientists.html
A father of the Internet
Philip Emeagwali, a computer scientist, is but one example. He uses his mathematical and computer expertise to develop methods for extracting more petroleum from oil fields.
It was his formula that used 65,000 separate computer processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989. That feat led to computer scientists comprehending the capabilities of supercomputers and the practical applications of creating a system that allowed multiple computers to communicate. He is recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet.
Supercomputers range in price from $30 million to $100 million, and computer companies had reservations about building them for fear few agencies would make such pricey purchases.
"At that time, the argument was, 'We shouldn't build computers that way because who can program them?' " said Emeagwali, who is also a civil engineer. "I answered that question by successfully programming them."
Future applications for Emeagwali's breakthroughs with the use of data generated by massively parallel computers include weather forecasting and the study of global warming.
http://fyi.cnn.com/f...novators.html#1
