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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 531,959 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Radia Perlman is the 80th most popular computer scientist (up from 94th in 2019), the 4,684th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,436th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Radia Perlman ranks 80 out of 245. Before her are Sergey Lebedev, Judea Pearl, Richard E. Stearns, Jan Koum, Kathleen Antonelli, and Joseph Sifakis. After her are Ruth Teitelbaum, Gil Amelio, Marlyn Meltzer, Jacques Vallée, Eugene Garfield, and Larry Tesler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Radia Perlman ranks 236. Before her are Alexei Uchitel, Muhammed Faris, Iván Fischer, Dave Benton, Ramón Puerta, and Phil Manzanera. After her are Steve Perryman, Andrei Kozyrev, Alfredo Astiz, Cheryl Ladd, John Gray, and Tom Noonan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Radia Perlman ranks 4,684 out of 20,380. Before her are Ryan Murphy (1965), Charles Best (1899), Carey Lowell (1961), Otto Warmbier (1994), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), and Richard Yates (1926). After her are Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Estelle Harris (1928), Seymour Cray (1925), Michael Shannon (1974), Marta Kauffman (1956), and Peter Jacobson (1965).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Radia Perlman ranks 49. Before her are Gary Kildall (1942), Leonard Adleman (1945), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Stephen Cook (1939), Richard M. Karp (1935), and Richard E. Stearns (1936). After her are Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Gil Amelio (1943), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Eugene Garfield (1925), Larry Tesler (1945), and Eric S. Raymond (1957).

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