Universitaire
Radia Perlman
American software designer and network engineer
- Vie
- 1951 – présent
- Né(e) le
- 18 décembre 1951
- Nationalité
- États-Unis
Radia Joy Perlman 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 i
