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Radia Perlman

Mouedh Souabni

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Early Life

3. Career

4. Achievements

6. Present

Introduction

  • Radia Perlman is an american computer programmer and network engineer.
  • She is known for her innovations in Internet.
  • She created the "Spanning Tree Protocol".
  • She is known as the mother of internet.

Early Life

  • Radia Perlman was born on December 18, 1951, in Portsmouth, Virginia, but spent most of her childhood in New Jersey.
  • Both her parents, Julius Perlman and Hope Rae Sonne, were engineers who worked for the US government. Her father worked on radars, and her mother was a mathematician and computer programmer.
  • Perlman was an outstanding student in school and was keenly interested in science and mathematics.
  • In 1973, she received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics, and in 1976, she obtained her master’s degree in the same field (from ‘MIT’).

Career

  1. Radia Perlman’s first job was as a part-time programmer for the ‘LOGO Lab’ at the ‘MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’ in 1971.
  2. In 1980, she joined ‘Digital Equipment Corporation’ (DEC) as a consulting engineer.
  3. At that time, ‘DEC’ was trying to solve the problem of file sharing between computers. Perlman invented ‘STP,’ which provided a solution to this problem.
  4. Perlman later developed a modified version of ‘STP,’ called ‘TRILL,’ to overcome the shortcomings of ‘STP’.
  5. Since 2014, she has been working for ‘DELL EMC.’ She currently lives in Redmond, Washington, U.S.

Achievements

  • Radia Perlman was inducted into the ‘National Inventors Hall of Fame’ in 2016.
  • She was inducted into the ‘Internet Hall of Fame’ in 2014.
  • In 2006, she received the ‘USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award.’
  • She was awarded with the ‘Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Innovation’ in 2005.
  • Perlman was named the ‘Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the Year’ in 2003.
  • She was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the ‘KTH Royal Institute of Technology,’ Sweden.

Present

Nowadays, she works for DELL.

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