Dr. V A Shiva Ayyadurai: The Indian Who Invented E-MAIL
A scientist, inventor and entrepreneur from India. But there is more to know about the inventor of EMAIL. Dr VA Shiva Ayyadurai, now living and working in the US, left India as a seven-year-old with his parents and in 1979, as a high school student, he developed an electronic version of an interoffice mail system, which he called "EMAIL" and copyrighted in 1982 against all odds. So he is widely credited as being the inventor of email. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History incorporated the paperwork documenting the creation of his program into their collection.
He has since acquired four degrees from MIT, taught there and has several innovations and patents to his name. And it’s not only his brilliant credentials that one should look up to, but also there is a...