Shiva Ayyadurai
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About
In the late 1970s, while volunteering at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, this teenage, up-and-coming computer scientist created an in-office mail delivery method that he termed "EMAIL." He copyrighted his system in 1982, and much controversy remains over whether he should actually be credited with the invention of email.
Before Fame
He earned degrees in computer science and electrical, mechanical, and biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently received a Fulbright grant.
Trivia
As numerous sources began to discredit Ayyadurai's claims to have invented email, MIT revoked funding for its EMAIL Lab and removed Ayyadurai from his teaching position at the university.
Family Life
He spent the first seven years of his life in Bombay, India, and the remainder of his childhood in the United States. In 2014, he married American television actress
Associated With
Ayyadurai and his wife met while attending a conference hosted by self-help author Deepak Chopra.
