Afterwards, she was inspired to make a new programming language that would teach much younger children similar to Logo, but using special "keyboards" and input devices. Perlman has been described as a pioneer of teaching young children computer programming. During research performed in 1974–76, young children-the youngest aged 3½ years, programmed a LOGO educational robot called a Turtle. Working under the supervision of Seymour Papert, she developed a child-friendly version of the educational robotics language LOGO, called TORTIS ("Toddler's Own Recursive Turtle Interpreter System"). She was given her first paid job in 1971 as part-time programmer for the LOGO Lab at the (then) MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, programming system software such as debuggers. EducationĪs an undergraduate at MIT Perlman learned programming for a physics class. She graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1969. I assumed I'd either get electrocuted, or I'd break something". It never occurred to me to take anything apart. She was the only woman in the class and later reflected "I was not a hands-on type person. But she didn't feel like she fit underneath the stereotype of an "engineer" as she did not break apart computer parts ĭespite being the best science and math student in her school it was only when Perlman took a programming class in high school that she started to consider a career that involved computers. While her mother helped her with her math homework, they mainly talked about literature and music. She enjoyed playing the piano and French horn. During her school years Perlman found math and science to be “effortless and fascinating”, but had no problem achieving top grades in other subjects as well. Her father worked on radar and her mother was a mathematician by training who worked as a computer programmer. Both of her parents worked as engineers for the US government. Perlman was born in 1951, Portsmouth, Virginia. More recently she has invented the TRILL protocol to correct some of the shortcomings of spanning trees, allowing Ethernet to use optimal use of bandwidth. She currently holds over 100 issued patents and many prestigious awards in the field of computer science such as Lifetime Achievement awards and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communication. Perlman was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardization: for example, enabling today's link-state routing protocols, to be more robust, scalable, and easy to manage. Her innovations have made a huge impact on how networks self-organize and move data. 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". She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. Radia Joy Perlman ( / ˈ r eɪ d i ə/ born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. Network layer protocols with Byzantine robustness (1988) Network and security protocols computer books
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