VA Shiva Ayyadurai, The Inventor of Email | The Washington Post: VA Shiva Ayyadurai: Inventor of Email honored by Smithsonian

The Washington Post: VA Shiva Ayyadurai: Inventor of Email honored by Smithsonian

VA Shiva Ayyadurai invented EMAIL, the world's first Email system at the age of 14 at 1978. He spoke with The Post's Emi Kolawole about his path from being a teenage inventor in New Jersey to the Smithsonian.

Learning Programming
@ NYU, 1978

V. A. Shiva, the Inventor of EMAIL: Learning Programming, 1978

EMAIL was named in 1978 in FORTRAN IV

First EMAIL System, 1980

Westinghouse Award Entry, 1981

Westinghouse Award, 1981

MIT Tech Talk, 1981

First US Copyright for EMAIL, 1982

COMAND, 1982

V. A. Shiva, Inventor of Email: EMAIL User's Manual Copyright, 1982

V. A. Shiva, Inventor of Email: EMS Copyright, 1984

U.S Patent: Relationship Management System and Method using Asynchronous Electronic Messaging, 2003

V. A. Shiva, Inventor of Email: Relationship Management System and Method using Asynchronous Electronic Messaging, 2003

U.S Patent: System and Method for Content-Sensitive Automatic Reply Message Generation, 2004

U.S Patent: Filter for Modeling System and Method for Handling and Routing of Text Based Aynchronous Commmunications, 2004

V. A. Shiva, Inventor of Email: Filter for Modeling System and Method for Handling and Routing of Text Based Aynchronous Commmunications, 2004