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TLDR: Sharla Boehm helped invent packet switching, a.k.a. "hot potato routing", and wrote the first implementation which proved that it could work. https://en.w
by CharlesW 5mo ago
TLDR: Sharla Boehm helped invent packet switching, a.k.a. "hot potato routing", and wrote the first implementation which proved that it could work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm
- jagged-chisel 5mo ago[And/But] whose code is [/not] present in today’s packet routing code Do we know which?
- readthenotes1 5mo agoSince it was a simulation written in Fortran, the odds of it actually being used for routing is pretty small.
- cmiles74 5mo agoI bet someone read the paper she co-authored and that might have had some influence on the code that they ended up writing. Her husband worked on ARPAnet, surely he would have mentioned that paper to someone!
- dgacmu 5mo agoHer husband almost certainly didn't need to - she co-authored with Paul Baran; the insights from this work were directly influential on his subsequent work, and both this work and RAND's larger corpus of work in this area were part of the reference materials used by ARPA (which we know today as DARPA) began the Arpanet project, which was the foundation for today's Internet.
- kortilla 5mo agoNo, she wrote a simulation of packet switching to help characterize how it would behave under various failure scenarios.