Radia credits her parents, who were engineers themselves, at least partially for her sense of empathy and deep curiosity. I’m good at getting to the conceptual heart of a problem, knowing what parts contain the irrelevant details and reaching a solution that looks like any 12-year-old could have done it.” Foundations in Empathy and Critical Thinking But also, the reason for the success of my designs is that they are very simple. “Partly, I was lucky to wind up in exactly the right job at the right time in history: the dawn of computer networks.
“I’m not good at being self-promoting or acting important,” she says. Radia remains modest about these achievements. She’s an MIT-educated engineer, a revered author, and her innovations like Spanning Tree Protocol played a fundamental role in the evolution of modern Ethernet networks. There are, of course, many things Radia is-for one, she’s world-renowned.
“I like to design things for people like me-things that are mostly auto-configuring and very resilient,” she says.
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Radia Perlman does not fit neatly into the bucket of “network engineer.” She is not an early adopter (“I barely know how to use a smartphone,” she says), nor is she a “tinkerer.” She has an artsy side-she loves literature and plays the piano.īut defying people’s presumptions is part of Perlman’s MO. Energy, Climate Action & Sustainabilityĭr.APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift.
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