![]() ![]() She designed her own programming language and a heap of tools and devices to teach programming to young kids, inadvertently starting the field of “tangible computing.” Ill contented with such ‘childish’ work but unsure of how to start PhD research, she took a job at Bolt Beranek and Newman Technologies designing networking protocols. Īfter that one unpaid programming job, Perlman started taking the programming world by storm. ![]() Her first successful foray into Computer Science came from asking her boyfriend how to program so she could help out with a physics project as an MIT undergraduate. The impression she had already fallen too far behind kept Perlman from learning anything at all from the class. She felt intimidated by the other kids in the class bragging “they had built ham radios when they were seven,” devices she had never even heard of before. Perlman didn’t rock her first computer science class, either. Although her mom worked as a computer programmer and mathematician for the US government, the two mostly talked about music and literature unless some math assignment required explanation. The young Perlman, who would go on to invent the spanning tree algorithm and write her PhD thesis on how to keep the entire internet functional, didn’t really want to become a programmer. This week, we’ll meet Radia Perlman, professor and inventor of the technology that stands between Wi-Fi and the core of the internet. So far we’ve met Hedy Lamarr, inventor of the technology behind Wi-Fi, and Jayshree Ullal, CEO of a company constructing the internet backbone. ![]()
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