Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman ( born 1952 in Portsmouth) is an American software developer and network engineer. Sometimes it is referred to as the mother of the Internet. It is famous for their invention of the Spanning Tree Protocol, which is essential for the progress of network bridges. Furthermore, it has made significant contributions in many other areas of network design and standardization, such as the link-state protocols. She received a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. In addition, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm ( KHT ). Her doctoral work at MIT addresses the issue of routing in serious network failures and forms the basis for the bulk of the work in this area.

Radia Perlman published scientific articles, is author and editor of the Radia Perlman Series in Computer Networking and Security. She is currently employed by Intel. She is the inventor of more than 38 patents alone at Sun Microsystems.

Awards

  • SVIPLA (archived page from archive.org ) ( Silicon Valley Inventor of the Year ) - ( 28 April 2004)
  • Honorary Doctorate, KTH ( KTH - Ekot Archives) - (June 28, 2000)
  • USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award 2006

Publications

  • With Charlie Kaufman, Ray Perlner: Privacy -preserving DRM. In: Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet. ACM, New York, NY, USA 2010, ISBN 978-1-60558-895-7, pp. 69-83, doi: 10.1145/1750389.1750399.
  • With Yang Tang, Patrick PC Lee, John CS Lui: FADE: Secure Overlay Cloud Storage with File Assured Deletion. In: Jajodia, Sushil, Zhou, Jianying ( Eds.): Security and Privacy in Communication Networks ( = Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 50. ). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-16160-5, 978-3-642-16161-2, pp. 380-397, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-16161-2_22.
  • User -centric PKI. In: Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Identity and trust on the Internet. ACM, New York, NY, USA 2008, ISBN 978-1-60558-066-1, pp. 59-71, doi: 10.1145/1373290.1373300.
  • Bridges, routers, switches, and internetworking protocols .. 1 edition. Addison -Wesley, 2003, ISBN 3827320933rd
  • Interconnections. Bridges and routers. 2nd revised. Edition. ISBN 3893197184th
  • With Suchitra Raman: Techniques for Making IP Multicast Simple and Scalable. In: Rizzo, Luigi, Fdida, Serge (Editor ) (ed. ): Networked Group Communication ( = Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1736. ). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 1999, ISBN 978-3-540-66782-7, pp. 270-285, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-46703-8_17.
  • As Issuer: Radia Perlman Series in Computer Networking and Security. ( Book series )
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