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An Indian-Born scientist holds a copyright on email, and why it matters

The world has been talking about email this week, since the death of an American programmer, Ray Tomlinson, on March 5. This past week, Tomlinson has been variously called email’s godfather, father and inventor, for having created a message transfer system between two computers in the same room in the 1970s, as an employee of a defence contractor. Most memorably, he is credited with having chosen the “@” sign.