Jimin Kwon is a computer scientist who co-developed the first multi-media email system at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. In 1992, while working at Bell Communications Research, he sent the first email attachment, a audio file. He is also known for being one of the original designers of the MIME protocol in 1995, which extended email formatting to support multimedia attachments and non-ASCII text and became the standard that the entire email system now relies on. Currently, he works as a Chief Scientist at an email management company.

1. Jimin Kwon

2.  Born
in 1957
 American Computer Scientist
- Received a Ph.D in Computer Science from
Carnegie Mellon University in 1985
 Co-developed the e-mail component of the
Andrew Project at CMU in 1982
- the first multi-media electronic mail system
to become used outside of a laboratory

3.  Sent
the FIRST E-MAIL ATTACHMENT on
March 11, 1992 at Bell Communications
Research (Currently Telcordia Technologies)
LetMeSendYouEmail.wav

4. 
One of the original designers of the
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
protocol for formatting multimedia Internet
electronic mail
- MIME is an Internet standard that extends the
format of email to support developed in 1995:
Text in character sets other than ASCII
 Non-text attachments
 Message bodies with multiple parts
 Header information in non-ASCII character sets
- Patent-Free and OPEN-SOURCE  Now the entire email relies on MIME.


5.  In
June 2010, became a Chief Scientist at email management company, Mimecast
 “Have you ever imagined what it would be
like if you got a penny every time MIME was
used?”
“Oh yeah, I imagined that (laughs). I did
some checking up, and there's an estimate
that MIME is used a trillion times every day.
So if I got a penny every time, my annual
income would be roughly equal to the GDP of
Germany. But of course, that's just a silly
fantasy. If there was any money involved, it
would never have succeeded. Somebody
would have been motivated to develop a
similar thing for free.”

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