Radia Perlman: advisors and students

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Radia Perlman

American software designer and network engineer (born 1951)born 1951

Wikidata names David D. Clark as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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known as: computer scientist, telecommunications engineer, mathematician, software developer
fields: computer science, software engineering, network security
awards: Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards, 2005, SIGCOMM Award, 2010, National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2016, Internet Hall of Fame, 2014, ACM Fellow, 2016, IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, 2023, honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology, 2000
member of: Association for Computing Machinery, from 2016, National Academy of Engineering, from 2015
notable works: Spanning Tree Protocol, computer literacy
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