Awarded IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2023).
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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…
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Born 18 December 1951 · Q7558
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Awarded IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2023).
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ZDNet: Radia Perlman, who made LANs work, honored in 'Hidden Heroes' series
Published “The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2” in Nature Microbiology — cited 5,777 times.
MIT Technology Review: Radia Perlman ’73, SM ’76, PhD ’88
For contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols
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Hackaday: radia perlman
Published “Pathogenic human coronavirus infections: causes and consequences of cytokine storm and immunopathology” in Seminars in Immunopathology — cited 1,968 times.
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2016).
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Awarded ACM Fellow (2016).
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Published “Dysregulated Type I Interferon and Inflammatory Monocyte-Macrophage Responses Cause Lethal Pneumonia in SARS-CoV-Infected Mice” in Cell Host & Microbe — cited 1,348 times.
Published “Coronaviruses: An Overview of Their Replication and Pathogenesis” in Methods in Molecular Biology — cited 2,599 times.
Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2014).
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And to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016
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Published “Fate Mapping Reveals Origins and Dynamics of Monocytes and Tissue Macrophages under Homeostasis” in Immunity — cited 2,959 times.
Awarded SIGCOMM Award (2010).
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Business Wire: Radia Perlman Named Intel Fellow
Published “Coronaviruses post-SARS: update on replication and pathogenesis” in Nature Reviews Microbiology — cited 1,359 times.
For contributions to network routing and security protocols
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And from the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGCOMM in 2010
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Awarded Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards (2005).
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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the year (2003)
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Published “Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcome Reports” in Circulation — cited 1,393 times.
Left Novell and joined Sun Microsystems
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1988).
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Was tasked with developing a straightforward protocol that enabled network bridges to locate loops in a local area network (LAN)
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As part-time programmer for the LOGO Lab at the (then) MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, programming system software such as debuggers
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Born 1951-12-18.
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