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Radia Perlman deserves more credit than she gets. She invented the Spanning Tree Protocol at DEC. Also Elizabeth Rather, co-inventor of the Forth language.
by bandrami 10y ago
Radia Perlman deserves more credit than she gets. She invented the Spanning Tree Protocol at DEC. Also Elizabeth Rather, co-inventor of the Forth language.
- todd8 10y agoBarbara Liskov: -- ACM Turing Award, "For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing" -- IEEE John von Neumann Award, “For fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems.”
- gmartres 10y agoRadia Perlman also wrote a great (and fun!) book on networking: https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Internetworking-Protocols/dp/0201634481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479676325&sr=8-1&keywords=radia+perlman https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int...