Radia Perlman

In 1952, Radia Perlman was born. Perlman got a bachelor's and a master's degree in mathematics, from MIT. After college, Perlman was hired by a government contractor that worked on network equipment. In 1980, she got a job at Digital Equipment Corp. At Digital Equipment Corp she developed the Spanning Tree Protocol which allows networks to deliver information. This created an outline of internet procedures. In 1988, Perlman gain a doctorate in computer science from MIT. Perlman was a professor at two colleges and worked on two textbooks. Perlman has won several awards and made great strides in the development of the internet.