V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai is an innovator, systems scientist, and systems artist from MIT. http://www.vashiva.com 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 http://www.vashiva.com/innovation/email/vashiva-the-history-of-email-vs-usps-snail-mail.asp Email has changed the way people communicate and relate to each other in business and personal lives. Over time, most people tend to accumulate large repository of emails in their inbox, folders and archives. In the traditional inbox/folders/archive view of emails, one gets to see the messages sequentially, or as 'conversations' which is a collection of emails with the same 'Subject' line. http://www.vashiva.com/media/visualization/vashiva-visualization.asp 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... http://www.vashiva.com/inventing_email.asp Two of my passions are the design and development of systems for supporting large-scale organizations e.g. EMAIL, EchoMail, and the other is medicine and biology. My doctoral work at M.I.T. focused on understanding how the cell works towards building a computational system for modeling the whole cell. http://www.vashiva.com/systems/vashiva-biomimetics-systems.asp The pharmaceutical industry is under massive chaos. Over the past decade, increased 30% annual year over year spending has resulted in not the concomitant increase in new drugs being discovered. Quite the opposite! There as has been an inverse relationship. Year over year, few drugs are being discovered... http://www.vashiva.com/medicine/vashiva-in-silico-drug-development.asp Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin convallis malesuada orci, cursus sollicitudin nibh consectetur nec. Suspendisse elementum mauris sed purus dapibus lobortis. Aliquam luctus lacus id turpis consequat a congue velit rhoncus. http://www.vashiva.com/innovation/vashiva-digital-refinery.asp In 1993, I was working at a CD-ROM data storage and search company known as Dataware Technologies. At that time, I had just completed my Masters at the MIT Media Laboratory in Visual Studies. My friends, artists, musicians, dancers all seemed to have a hell of a lot of problems getting gigs. The gatekeepers of the Arts, agents, gallery owners, etc., seemed to be their biggest obstacles. http://www.vashiva.com/media/vashiva-early-online-communities.asp In June of 2009, while getting ready to come back to the United States after my year-long Fulbright research work in India on "Siddha and Systems Biology", I was called into the office of the Director General (DG) of India's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He had to my surprise printed out my dossier. He asked me "Why are you going back to Boston? India needs people like you... http://www.vashiva.com/innovation/vashiva-innovation-freedom.asp Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin convallis malesuada orci, cursus sollicitudin nibh consectetur nec. 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Aliquam luctus lacus id turpis consequat a congue velit rhoncus. Vivamus sit amet posuere metus. Ut varius est nec tortor sodales tincidunt. http://www.vashiva.com/medicine/vashiva-systems-medicine.asp The International Center for Integrative Systems will be launched later this fall in Cambridge, a few miles from MIT. The Center, started by MIT alumni and local volunteers, aims to bring systems thinking and practice to the local community through research and educational programs in health and sustainability. The hope is that the Center will serve as a community laboratory for local universities... http://www.vashiva.com/systems/vashiva-center-integrative-systems.asp Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin convallis malesuada orci, cursus sollicitudin nibh consectetur nec. Suspendisse elementum mauris sed purus dapibus lobortis. Aliquam luctus lacus id turpis consequat a congue velit rhoncus. Vivamus sit amet posuere metus. 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