Radia Perlman: The Mother of Networking Who Redefined How We Use the Internet
Radia Perlman: The Mother of Networking Who Redefined How We Use the Internet Radia Perlman is an icon of innovation, largely regarded as the ‘Mother of Networking’. Her inventions and contributions to technology permeate digital communication and information-sharing as we know them today, and she has made huge strides in pushing the boundaries of how we use the Internet. Radia Perlman was born in Queens, New York in the 1950’s, but has spent much of her life in the Boston area. She stored a passion for technology at an early age. At 15 she began studying mathematics and computer science, and she went on to study at MIT, where she wrote a book on network technology. Her work has resulted in numerous groundbreaking inventions and inventions that have been implemented in many of the technologies that we use every day. This includes her well-known Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which created a loop-free topology for Ethernet networks and translated confusing routing tables into easy-to-...