In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Jessica Bell is joined by Radia Perlman, ACM Fellow and renowned computer scientist, who has made fundamental contributions to Internet routing and bridging, including work on network resilience. Currently a Fellow at Dell EMC, Perlman is famous for writing the spanning tree protocol (STP), which powers the Ethernet. She reflects on her early days at MIT and later Digital Equipment Corporation, where she worked on DECnet, one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, and how that inspired her doctoral thesis on routing in the face of malicious network failures. Perlman then relates how she wrote the algorithm behind STP “over a long weekend.” They also discuss the importance of teaching critical thinking in STEM education, healthy corporate culture, and the reciprocal value of mentorship.
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Yaw Anokwa - Episode 31
Steve Nouri - Episode 30
Nuria Oliver - Episode 29
Michelle Zhou - Episode 28
Charu Thomas - Episode 27
Shyam Gollakota - Episode 26
Margo Seltzer - Episode 25
Wendy Chapman - Episode 24
David Heinemeier Hansson - Episode 23
Amanda Randles - Episode 22
Jelani Nelson - Episode 21
Luiz André Barroso - Episode 20
Ayanna Howard - Episode 19
Mounia Lalmas - Episode 18
Bryan Cantrill - Episode 17
Leslie Lamport - Episode 16 (Special Episode in Partnership with the Hanselminutes Podcast)
Suchi Saria - Episode 15
Luis von Ahn - Episode 14
Ramesh Raskar - Episode 13
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