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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hello SIGCIS,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I’d say “fresh tissue” is overselling it. The material here (and in two other new “ebooks” posted to Ayyadurai’s propaganda site <a href="http://vashiva.com/">http://vashiva.com/</a>) is largely remixed from his book, website content, and the series of posts that the Huffington Post pulled from its “blogger-generated” PR section after an internal inquiry confirmed “factual and sourcing issues.” All the substantive assertions are already evaluated at <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai">www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>So this particular tissue is more than a little stale –like one of those tissues that is used to mop up something sticky and then gets lodged between sofa cushions or under a pillow until it is rediscovered months or years later. You might be tempted to reuse it in an emergency, but probably better to treat yourself to a new one from the box.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I’ll avoid the impulse to repeat myself on this case, but there were a few thoughts that came to mind as I skimmed through:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Team Ayyadurai has made an attempt to dress this up as scholarly work by including a bunch of in-text author/year citations. Yet they continue to ignore the existence of the most prominent works of Internet and network history: Abbate’s <i>Inventing the Internet</i>, Hiltzak’s <i>Dealers of Lightning, </i>Waldrop’s <i>The Dream Machine</i>, Hafner’s <i>Where Wizards Stay Up Late</i>, Russell’s <i>Open Standards and the Digital Age</i>. That’s even more prounounced in the other “eBook,” “Invention of EMAIL in Newak NJ (1978)” which finds dozens of blog posts to reference, from such authoritative sources as ask.com, historyofemail.com (another Ayyadurai domain), and innovationcorps.com (yet another Ayyadurai domain). It’s hard to escape the feeling that one is reading a story that takes place in a different universe in which only a handful of paid hacks have ever suggested that email was the most widely used application on the ARPANET by the mid-1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>TA still refuses to cite me properly! Many of the alleged “misuses” are taken from <a href="http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai">www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai</a>, which has a title, a date, a URL, and an author. But, unlike all those vital sources from inventorofemail.com, it’s cited merely as “SIGCIS blog.” Could it be that they’re scared people might follow the link and be convinced by my careful and well supported analysis? In fact some of the “Misuses” where the quoted text comes from my page are misattributed to Compuserve and to Dave Croker.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>As science fiction fans know, any imagined universe needs to be internally consistent. TA doesn’t manage that. They continue (p. 39) to dismiss the XEROX PARC email system Laurel for lacking the relational database found in Ayyadurai’s system. In the other “eBooks” the same authors mention that Ayyadurai’s system used a network (i.e. non-relational) database.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>As well as the nuggets on SIGCIS that Dag found, here are a few more:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>This manuscript itemizes and exposes these<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>misuses, many of which are deliberately perpetuated by a cabal of “historians,”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>who promote this false narrative as their allegiance, in spite of the overwhelming<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>and overt facts, is to the larger narrative that great innovations, such as email, can<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>only emerge from the military-industrial-academic complex (‘SIGCIS Blog’,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>2012).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>and</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>What is unfortunate is that even scholarly “historians,” like Mr. Thomas Haigh,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>a leader of the SIGCIS group, and others either purposely wanting to deny the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>facts of email’s origin from 1978 at UMDNJ, or unconsciously cutting and copying<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>the Gizmodo article, believing Biddle’s sensationalistic article to be the truth,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>continue to use Biddle’s article as a primary and scholarly source reference to deny<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>email’s invention by Ayyadurai in Newark, New Jersey. Such tabloid articles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>are referenced as the primary source on Wikipedia and some major media to attempt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>to perpetuate false assertions that RFCs are email, and predate Ayyadurai’s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>invention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>And<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Mr. Haigh leads SIGCIS, which is a group of computer “historians”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>that denies the invention of email in 1978 at UMDNJ, in spite of the clear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>facts. Their disinformation and historical revisionism is based on equating “electronic<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>messaging” with “email.” These “historians” had already written “email<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>history,” prior to Smithsonian’s acquisition of Ayyadurai’s artifacts on February<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>16, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>The fact is “email” was already clearly defined in 1978 as the electronic interoffice,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>inter-organizational paper-based mail system, and formally recognized in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>1982 by the issuance of the U.S. government’s issuance of the first Copyright for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>“Email” to Ayyadurai. Such an attempt to provide a revisionist definition of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>“email” by industry insiders, in 2012, served one purpose, to allow them: Tomlinson,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Van Vleck and Crocker, who worked with the early messaging systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>SNDMSG, MAIL and MS, respectively, to retroactively define their work as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>“email” so as to ensure their primacy to “email,” which they did not create, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>had no intention of creating, while misappropriating credit from Ayyadurai.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>And<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Concomitant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>with these efforts, as the timeline shows of attack on Ayyadurai (Abraham,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>2014) industry insiders, supported by SIGCIS “historians,” Ray Tomlinson, BBN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>supporters, and ex-BBN employees continued to perpetuate a false history of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>email by discrediting Ayyadurai's invention as well as character assassinating him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>as an inventor and scientist. They used historical revisionism and confusion to redefine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>and misuse the term email.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Not to mention (from the other “eBook”)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>“Historians,” loyal to Raytheon/BBN and the ARPAnet community, prior<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>to the Smithsonian acquisition of Ayyadurai’s papers, had </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>already </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>written a “history”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>that attributed the credit of email’s invention to members of the militaryindustrial-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>academic complex (Judy, 1995; Leiner, et. al., 1999; Partridge, 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>The acquisition of Ayyadurai’s artifacts into the Smithsonian and its worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>disclosure had thrown the proverbial “monkey wrench” (W. Uricchio, personal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>communications, 2012) into this false and revisionist history.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>To discredit the facts and misinform journalists and bloggers, the cabal of “historians”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>and industry insiders collaborated to present a listing of false claims of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>email’s existence prior to 1978 (‘SIGCIS blog’, 2012; Song and He, 2014)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Also<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>The deplorable and insidious collusion of those claiming<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>to be “historians” who deliberately supress or argue these facts, deserves a serious<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>public inquiry as public funds are granted to such “historians” to tell the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>truth of human progress. The struggle to share these facts demonstrates how “historians”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>have become sophisticated public relations agents that manufacture and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>package “histories,” no different than clever propaganda, to perpetuate lies of the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>pre-eminence of the military-industrial-academic complex.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The account given there of the process whereby Ayyadurai’s box of materials found its way to NMAH may also be of interest to some on this list:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Following his<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>mother’s death on January 7, 2012 (‘Meenakshi Ayyadurai Death Records’,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>2012), he contacted Dr. Deborah Douglas, curator of the MIT Museum, with the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>intention of donating the historical materials to MIT, his alma mater. After consideration,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Dr. Douglas wrote to Ayyadurai (Ayyadurai and Douglas, personal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>communications, February 1, 2012):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>“I wanted to follow-up with you but first I'd like to extend my sympathies to you<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>and your family. The loss of one's mother is often a great blow…. Naturally, I and<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>my assistant are always interested in learning about pioneering science and technology<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>projects, so it may be worthwhile for us to meet. Have other stories besides<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>the Time magazine article been written? We'd love to get materials for our<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>bio files.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Once Dr. Douglas realized the extensive nature of the artifacts, and though she<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>was excited for MIT to own and house the artifacts, Dr. Douglas wrote to the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Smithsonian and the Computer History Museum (Douglas, Molella and Bedi, personal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>communication, February 2, 2012), stating:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>“Shiva generously offered this collection to the MIT Museum and while part of<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>me wants to acquire this, I honestly think it deserves to be at a place like the<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>Smithsonian or the Computer History Museum. I also mentioned the Lemelson<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>Center (which caused him to perk up as he has won a Lemelson-MIT prize!).”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>This led to the both the Smithsonian and Computer History Museum communicating<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>directly with Ayyadurai vying to have the materials housed at their respective<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>museums (Ayyadurai, Kidwell and Weber, personal communications, 2012).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Ayyadurai finally chose to allow the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>History (NMAH) to acquire the artifacts that his mother had archived. His<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>decision to place it in the NMAH was based on discussions and an understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>with the Smithsonian that the NMAH would create a special exhibit that would inspire<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>and educate other young innovators on the possibilities for innovation (Ayyadurai,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Kidwell, Oswald, Molella and Edwards, personal communications, February<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>2-20, 2012). Based on these discussions and agreements, Ayyadurai did not<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>charge the Smithsonian anything for the acquisition.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The abstract of the other “eBook” does an interesting job of attempting to thread the needle by portraying Ayyadurai, whose promotional materials prominently featured his claimed status as an MIT “faculty member” and holder of many MIT degrees, to portray himself as an underdog outsider victimized by elites of the kind associated with MIT.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT'>Abstract: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>The invention of email in Newark, New Jersey reveals fundamental<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>truths about the nature of innovation and exposes the “histories” and propaganda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>of the “golden triangle” of </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>the military-industrial-academic complex </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>whose multitrillion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>dollar </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>brand </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>advertises itself as the source of all revolutionary innovations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Such propaganda are constructed and packaged by those consecrated as “historians”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>who hone this branding to brainwash humanity that war brings good things to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>life. This cabal anoints and exalts its “innovators,” predominantly whites, and a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>few persons of color, who pledge to its hegemony of innovation. The indisputable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>facts of the invention of email in 1978 by V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, a 14-year-old,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>dark-skinned, lower-caste, Indian immigrant prodigy, working as a research scholar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Newark,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>defy such “histories.” The boy’s invention, the first electronic </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>system </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>replicating<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>the complex and myriad functions of the interoffice, inter-organizational<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>paper-based mail system (inbox, outbox, memo, address book, etc.), which he<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>named “email,” was motivated by his desire to create and to do the “impossible.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Email was invented to digitize this entire system of </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>civilian office communications<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>and </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>not </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>just to exchange text messages reliably for </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>military battlefield communications</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Email was the first end user software application that made the digital revolution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>accessible to ordinary people who had never experienced the computer keyboard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>or terminal. Ayyadurai’s evolution as an inventor and scientist continued,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>far beyond email, to his completing four degrees at MIT, receiving worldwide acclaim,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>and being exalted as an </span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT'>innovator </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>during his thirty-three years at MIT,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>while within the triangle. He served their needs as a penultimate ambassador and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>“model minority” to enhance their brand’s image of “inclusivity,” “diversity,” and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>“equality.” However, when the Smithsonian requested and obtained artifacts documenting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>email’s origin in 1978, in Newark, on February 16, 2012, and when Ayyadurai<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>accepted this great American honor, he unwittingly pitted himself against<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>their brand. The cabal unleashed disinformation claiming email was created before<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>1978. When these claims were debunked and Ayyadurai continued sharing facts,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>the attacks escalated to a public “lynching” revealing an insidious side of racism,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>which exalts persons of color when needed, and expels and annihilates them when<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>they challenge false histories and propaganda. Email did emerge from “collaboration,”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>but not from their triangle, but organically in a local, and indigenous ecosystem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>of a small medical college, where a brilliant young boy, committed teachers, a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>loving family, and a dedicated mentor, solved a civilian problem, exemplifying<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>countless other innovations across millennia, inspired to advance life not retrofitted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>from technologies intended to maim and kill. Such histories are deliberately<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>not documented to perpetuate lies that war is good and to mask its rapacious profits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Documenting the invention of email in Newark, New Jersey, therefore, is a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>historical imperative towards breaking this diabolical trance to reveal a fundamental<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>truth: innovation can occur, anytime, anyplace by anybody, and war and profit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>are not its necessary and required impetus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dag Spicer<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 24, 2016 9:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> members@lists.sigcis.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] A fresh tissue of lies...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now available from S.A.’s dupes…<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>