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Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954. [9] He was raised in Onitsha in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. His early schooling was suspended in 1967 as a result of the Nigerian Civil War.
This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.
A plaque commemorating the "Birth of the Internet" was dedicated at a conference on the history and future of the internet on 28 July 2005 and is displayed at the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford University. [237] The text printed and embossed in black into the brushed bronze surface of the plaque reads: [2] [nb 1]
[48] [49] He advocates the idea that net neutrality is a kind of human network right: "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights." [50] Berners-Lee participated in an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He and 20 ...
A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, RFC 1430, February 1993; Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 [108] Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S. Patent 6,418,138; Vinton Cerf et al., System for Distributed Task Execution June 3, 2003, U.S. Patent 6,574,628
Emmit McHenry (born July 12, 1943) is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and technology pioneer known for his contributions to the internet. He founded Network Solutions, Inc. in 1995, which became the first company to register domain names, playing a crucial role in the development of the domain name system (DNS), making the internet more user-friendly.
The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
Dean is the first [13] African-American to become an IBM Fellow, which is the highest level of technical excellence at the company. In 1997, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [12] [14] He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. [15] In 1997, Dean was awarded the Black Engineer of the Year Presidents ...