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Radia Perlman

1951 - Today

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Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. She is most famous for her invention of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, thus earning her nickname "Mother of the Internet". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Radia Perlman has received more than 489,597 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Radia Perlman is the 94th most popular computer scientist (up from 121st in 2019), the 5,448th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,426th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Radia Perlman ranks 94 out of 201. Before her are Ruth Teitelbaum, Eugene Kaspersky, Robert W. Floyd, Robert Taylor, Stephen Wolfram, and Marlyn Meltzer. After her are Joseph Sifakis, Eugene Garfield, Manuel Blum, Edmund M. Clarke, John Hopcroft, and Jan Koum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Radia Perlman ranks 255. Before her are Phyllis Smith, David Almond, Luther Vandross, Marcel Iureș, Vladimír Špidla, and Anthony Phillips. After her are Jalil Zandi, Tom Hamilton, Barbara Morgan, Claudio Baglioni, Guy Lafleur, and Tatyana Kazankina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Radia Perlman ranks 5,448 out of 18,182. Before her are Matt Sorum (1960), Amy Brenneman (1964), Bobby Cannavale (1970), Donald Fagen (1948), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), and Lawrence Lessig (1961). After her are Henry Gibson (1935), Harry Carey (1878), Ivanka Trump (1981), Henry Carr (1941), Hill Harper (1966), and Roger Sherman (1721).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Radia Perlman ranks 58. Before her are Eric S. Raymond (1957), Richard M. Karp (1935), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Robert W. Floyd (1936), Robert Taylor (1932), and Marlyn Meltzer (1922). After her are Eugene Garfield (1925), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), John Hopcroft (1939), Betty Holberton (1917), Evan Williams (1972), and Peter Norton (1943).

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