Radia Perlman: “Don’t call me mother of the Internet”

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Radia Perlman, Mother of the Internet

The often called monther of the Internet is one of the very few women who contributed in the creation of the internet, to b exact she solved a serious data routing problem with the STPprotocol, Spanning Tree Protocol. The reason she doesn’t like being called mother of the Internet is that it wasn’t invented by one person, but many people contributed for its creation

Radia Perlman worn born on December 18th of 1951 at New Jersey. Both her parents were mechanics, although he love for math and programming wasn’t influenced by them

During her school years, she worked her best to be top of the class She always liked logical problems and believes mathematics are easy and fascinating In high school, her teacher managed to gather a group of students, including Perlman, to attend a programming class at the local university

She has mentioned during an interview that before that class she always believed that she would be the best in any exact science course That changed the first time she went to that programming class From the moment she entered the room. she heard other students talk with words and terms she didn’t understand. However, she learned programming at MIT when the professor’s assistant asked her if she would like to help him with a project because he didn’t want to hire a professional and pay him.

During her university studies, she observed that she was one of the few women in her field. This didn’t change when she started working full time It was very rare to have women coleages in her field or in her group projects

When she was asked “What do you think you did right in order to get here”, her answer was unexpected.” The only thing i did right was being at the right place the right time” and proceeded to add “It was my way of approaching problems, i think of a very simple solution instead of a complex and confusing one”.

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