NEW DELHI: Ancient yogis and sages were not just medical healers but also systems scientists and systems engineers, who saw the body and the universe as interconnected engineering system, says email inventor V A Shiva Ayyadurai who has done pioneering research in this field.

Last week, Ayyadurai presented at Sages and Scientists Conference in California his paper, which validates scientific foundation of Ayurveda and Siddha.

The paper is being published in the International Journal of Systems of Systems Engineering.

According to him Ayurveda and Siddha were designed to be pro-active to protect and strengthen the body before illness set in.

"They are about living a proper lifestyle," 50-year-old Ayyadurai, an MIT systems scientist, technologist, entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of CytoSolve, Inc., told PTI.

In 1978, Ayyadurai invented the world's first email system at the age of 14 and was awarded the first US copyright for "email". Yesterday was the 32th anniversary of the email. On August 30, 1982, the US government officially recognised Ayyadurai as the inventor of email by awarding him the first US copyright for email for his 1978 invention.

He was inspired by his grandmother, who used to heal people in the traditional way, in undertaking the study on ancient medicine.

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