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Re: V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai: Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian

2012-02-18 21:43:12
He clearly is the 'inventor' of "EMAIL" but certainly not of email.  I wonder 
if there's someone napping at the Smithsonian, or if it's just the Post 
confusing EMAIL with email.  The guy may be well worthy of recognition, just 
not for inventing email.  Perhaps an editor is to blame for the erroneous 
headline and denotation in the story.

Go get 'em Dave.  Have them publish a correction.    

Regards,

Alex 

On Feb 18, 2012, at 5:42 PM, "Carl S. Gutekunst" <csg(_at_)alameth(_dot_)org> 
wrote:

John Levine wrote:

Well, this is sad:
   V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai: Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/va-shivaayyadurai-inventor-of-e-mail-honored-by-smithsonian/2012/02/17/gIQA8gQhKR_story.html>
    

It's more just strange.  Looking at the article and the pictures that
go with it, can anyone figure out what it was he was doing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai

EMAIL is the name of the software package he wrote while in High School. He 
holds the patent for Auto-reply, among other things.

<csg>