Radia Perlman
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title:
Radia Perlman
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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 the Internet". Her innovations have made a huge impact on how networks self-organize and move data.
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American software designer and network engineer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman
date created:
2006-03-01T08:26:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T22:50:57Z
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