Inventor of Email Launches Inner City Innovation Fund On 30th Anniversary of Email
NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In 1978, V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, then a 14-year-old kid, working in Newark, NJ at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) invented email. On August 30, 1982, four years later, the United States government officially recognized his invention with the issuance of the first U.S. Copyright for “EMAIL, The Computer Program for Electronic Mail System.”
