V A Shiva was featured recently in an exclusive TIME magazine interview with Doug Aamoth, Technology Editor. The interview provided a detailed history of EMAIL, and how EMAIL is different from the history of text messaging... more

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai invented the 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... more

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai has nothing against the tech pioneers who started sending one another messages over the Arpanet — the Internet's predecessor — in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He just asserts... more

Lora Kolodny of Fast Company writes on how V A Shiva's idea of using technology to save the US Postal Service could save the organization started by Benjamin Franklin, one of the world's greatest innovators... more

August 30, 1982 marks the 29th Anniversary of EMAIL, marked by the formal issuance of the copyright for "EMAIL" by the US Copyright Office. Earlier, starting in 1978, I began creating the first EMAIL system while 14-years old, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). In fact the term "Electronic Mail", "EMAIL" itself was a new term. The two words, "Electronic" and... more

For 20 years, as the Infographic shows, the leadership of the US Postal Service (USPS) management chose to ignore the change in communications: EMAIL. They chose to ignore their real mission: to be a communications organization processing and delivering MAIL. As the format of MAIL was explosively changing from paper to electronic, they remained silent and content, holding their royal positions as heads.. more

The Huffington Post marks the 29th Anniversary of EMAIL with an infographic on The History of EMAIL ... more

William M. Bulkeley of The Wall Street Journal writes on V A Shiva and EchoMail, the software created by him which is designed to improve corporate responsiveness to EMAIL by automating their processing ... more

V A Shiva was featured as one of the candidates for the Lemelson-MIT Prize in this article which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor... more