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Radia Perlman
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American software designer and network engineer (born 1951)
OverviewAI-generated
Radia Joy Perlman is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and software developer. Born in Portsmouth, she holds citizenship in the United States. Her professional career has included employment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BBN Technologies, Sun Microsystems, and Dell EMC. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the National Academy of Engineering.
Perlman is recognized for her work in computer science, software engineering, and network security. Her notable contributions include the Spanning Tree Protocol and efforts in computer literacy. She received her education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where David D. Clark served as her doctoral advisor. Her publications include the works *Interconnexions* and *Interconnections*.
Throughout her career, Perlman has received several honors, including the SIGCOMM Award, ACM Fellow status, and induction into the Internet Hall of Fame. She is also recognized in the National Inventors Hall of Fame collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Interconnexions
- Interconnections
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2
· 2020 · cited 5,766x
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,163x
- The Hadoop Distributed File System
· 2010 · cited 3,280x
- Fate Mapping Reveals Origins and Dynamics of Monocytes and Tissue Macrophages under Homeostasis
· 2013 · cited 2,947x
- Coronaviruses: An Overview of Their Replication and Pathogenesis
· 2015 · cited 2,597x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1951-12-18 ) December 18, 1951 (age 74) , Portsmouth, Virginia , US
- Alma mater
- MIT
- Known for
- Network and security protocols; computer books
- Awards
- Internet Hall of Fame , National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Fields
- Computer Science
- Institutions
- Digital Equipment Corporation , Sun Microsystems , Intel
- Thesis
- Network layer protocols with Byzantine robustness (1988)
- Doctoral advisor
- David D. Clark
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Radia Perlman - Internet Hall of Fame
internethalloffame.org →Dr. Perlman’s work has had a profound impact on how networks self-organize and move data. Her innovations enable today’s link state routing protocols to be robust, scalable, and easy to manage. The particular protocol she designed in the 1980s (IS-IS) continues to flourish for routing IP today. She designed the spanning tree algorithm that transformed Ethernet from the original limited-scalability, single-wire CSMA/CD, into a protocol that can handle large clouds. Later, she improved on spanning tree-based Ethernet by designing TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links), which allows Ethernet to make optimal use of bandwidth. Her textbook Interconnections made a science out of the murky field of network protocols. She is also coauthor of Network Security, another very popular college textbook. Her contributions to network security include trust models for Public Key Infrastructure, data expiration, and distributed algorithms resilient despite malicious participants. She believes that designs should allow zero-configuration operation, and that where configuration is allowed, misconfiguration should not be possible. She has taught courses at the University of Washington, Harvard University and MIT, and has been the keynote speaker at events all over the world. Perlman holds over 100 issued patents and is the recipient of awards such as Lifetime Achievement awards from Usenix and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). Her B.S and M.S. degrees were in mathematics from MIT, and her PhD was in Computer Science from MIT.
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Encyclopedic overview
Radia Joy Perlman (/ˈreɪdiə/; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the Internet. She is most famous for her invention of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, thus earning her nickname "Mother of the Internet" a title that she did not like. Her innovations have made a huge impact on how networks self-organize and move data. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardization – for example, enabling today's link-state routing protocols to be more robust, scalable, and easy to manage.
Perlman was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols. She holds over 100 issued patents. She was elected to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014, and to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016. She received lifetime achievement awards from USENIX in 2006 and from the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGCOMM in 2010.
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