Shiva Ayyadura
VA Shiva Ayyadurai is an American scientist of Indian origin, inventor and entrepreneur.
As a high school student in 1979, he developed an electronic version of an interoffice mail system, which he called "EMAIL" and copyrighted in 1982.
Ayyadurai was born on December 2, 1963 to a Hindu Tamil family in Bombay,Maharashtra, India.
At the age of seven, he left with his family to live in the United States.
At age 14, he attended a special summer program at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (NYU) to study computer programming, and later went on to graduate from Livingston High School in Livingston, New Jersey.
At the age of seven, he left with his family to live in the United States.
At age 14, he attended a special summer program at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (NYU) to study computer programming, and later went on to graduate from Livingston High School in Livingston, New Jersey.
His undergraduate degree from MIT was in electrical engineering and computer science; he took a master's degree in visual studies from the MIT Media Laboratory on scientific visualization; concurrently, he completed another master's degree in mechanical engineering, also from MIT; and in 2007, he obtained a Ph.D. in biological engineering from MIT in systems biology.
In 1979, as a 14-year-old high school student at Livingston High School in New Jersey, Shiva Ayyadurai began his work on an email system for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
He named his program “EMAIL”. Shiva filed an application for copyright in his program and in 1982 the United States Copyright Office issued a Certificate of Registration, No. TXu-111-775, to him on the program.
A November 2011 Time Techland interview by Doug Aamoth entitled "The Man Who Invented Email" argued that Ayyadurai's program represented the birth of email "as we currently know it".
In that interview, Ayyadurai recalled that Les Michelson, the former particle scientist at Brookhaven National Labs who assigned Ayyadurai the project, had the idea of creating an electronic mail system that uses the header conventions of a hardcopy memorandum.
Shiva envisioned something simpler, something that everyone, from secretary to CEO, could use to quickly and reliably send and receive digital messages.
Shiva embraced the project and began by performing a thorough evaluation of UMDNJ's paper-based mail system, the same as that used in offices and organizations around the world.
On September 7, 2014, Ayyadurai and actress Fran Drescher participated in a ceremony at Drescher's beach house.
Both tweeted that they had gotten married, and the event was widely reported as such.
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