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Radia Perlman is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. She
is known for her contributions to bridging (spanning tree algorithm)
and routing (link state distribution) as well as security
(sabotage-proof networks).
She is the author of the textbook Interconnections: Bridges and
Routers, and co-author of Network Security: Private Communication
in a Public World, two of the top 10 Networking reference books,
according to Network Magazine.
Dr. Perlman is one of the networking industry's 25 most
influential people, according to Data Communications Magazine.
She has about 50 issued patents in the fields of routing and
security. She has a PhD in computer science, degrees in
mathematics from MIT, and an honorary doctorate from the Royal
Institute of Technology in Sweden.
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