He is accused of making controversial statements about his achievements, such as inventing the Internet and creating the world's fastest computer, the Connection Machine, which are disputed by the scientific society or community[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954.

[17] Emeagwali filed a court challenge, stating that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his race.

[1] He was cited by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians can achieve when given the opportunity[23] and is frequently featured in popular press articles for Black History Month.

[24][16] Emeagwali has made several controversial claims about his achievements that are widely disputed by scientific community and journalists.

[7][2][8][5] Speaking during a visit to Switzerland in April 2009, Mr. Emeagwali said he was the first to program a hypercube "to solve a grand challenge defined as the 20 gold-ring problems in computing.

He claimed that by his effort, he was able to set three world records and improve on Newton's second law of motion.

[5] Inquiries from the University showed that he failed his Ph.D. qualifying exams twice and wrote a doctoral dissertation that fell short of the standards of the Graduate School.