#spanning tree

[carmenvicinanza]

Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman, informatica statunitense, tra le maggiori esperte mondiali di software design e ingegneria informatica, è l’inventrice dello Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) che ha reso più efficiente la rete, ottimizzando il collegamento tra i suoi nodi.

Nominata Inventrice dell’anno 2004 dalla Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association, è stata annoverata tra le 20 persone più influenti nel campo della tecnologia da Data Communications Magazine.

Nata a Portsmouth, in Virginia, il 18 dicembre 1951, da una coppia di ingegneri che lavorava per il Governo, ha vissuto a lungo in New Jersey. Brillante studentessa in scienze e matematica al liceo, dopo il diploma è stata tra le rarissime ragazze a frequentare il MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) dove, nel 1976, si è laureata in Matematica.

Nel 1980, lavorando per Digital Equipment Corp, colosso dei computer, agli albori di internet, ha prodotto l’algoritmo per STP.

Nel 1988 ha conseguito il dottorato in informatica presso il MIT.

Ha lasciato Digital nel 1993 per lavorare per Novell e nel 1997 è entrata in Sun Microsystems, dove si è specializzata nella sicurezza di rete. Nel 2007, le è stato conferito il titolo di Distinguished Engineer. 

Ha insegnato alle Università di Harvard e di Washington. Nel corso della sua carriera ha ottenuto circa 80 brevetti.

È l’autrice di Interconnections: Bridges and Routers e coautrice (assieme a Charlie Kaufman) di Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, due fra i dieci più importanti testi in materia di networking.

[chandisappointment]

4 guys. In the trees. <3

[housecow]

I'd pay so much money to hear you give a lesson on paleontolgy. Whenever you write about you seem so formal and passionate ✨️

this is sooooo sweet but i guarantee you don’t want this bc the first lesson would be on terminology and the geologic timeline, some of the most boring but fundamental shit 😭😭

or, hear me out—that but my feeder is stuffing me more and more. the lesson keeps getting interrupted by sips of weight gain shake and many belly rubs

[incorrect-upon-a-witchlight]

During Guys Night

Gideon: What do you want to be for Halloween?

Gricko: Yours.

Gideon:

Gideon: …yeah, that would be pretty scary.

[beautyofattolia]

Avatar: the Way of Water Incorrect Quote

Jake: All right, now pay attention. I have an announcement to make and I only have a minute.

Lo’ak: Why? Are you in a hurry?

Jake: No, I was referring to your relatively short attention span.

[treesinspace]

Soooo I watched The Pitt... it's good

[corset]

If you actually think about how insane the turn of the millennium as like an experienced phenomenon is your brain starts hurting . Not the turn of the century.....One Thousand Years. The 1980s were the same millennium as the 1200s. In another thousand years it will be the year three thousand and we're in the 25 CE, the 1025 of the 2000s to those in the year 3000. Thats like 13 generations of human beings. And people just went uh don't forget to turn your computer off. 30 year old human beings just saw it happen and it'll happen again? Sorry I'm having an existential crisis apparently

[coupleofdays]

According to the Tron Wiki, the character "Radia" is possibly named after the computer programmer Radia Perlman, whose contributions to network design (that are far too complicated for me as a layperson to understand) has earned her the nickname "Mother of the Internet".

She did once write a short poem about her work, a parody of Joyce Kilmer´s (in)famous poem "Trees":

Algorhyme

I think that I shall never see

A graph more lovely than a tree.

A tree whose crucial property

Is loop-free connectivity.

A tree which must be sure to span

So packets can reach every LAN.

First the root must be selected.

By ID it is elected.

Least cost paths from root are traced.

In the tree these paths are placed.

A mesh is made by folks like me

Then bridges find a spanning tree.

[crowpricorn]

some things in stories are good left unsaid and just hinted BUT i would really love for samantha shannon to write a whole book about cleolind neporo and kalyba. or a little pamphlet. or a grocery list with info about them and their relationships!

[sunflowertrick]

shouldn’t a champion ranked trainer have better control over her pokemon?

i mean i do normally. but when im at home theyre not kept in their pokeballs usually unless needed and sometimes stuff. happens.

[ronanlynchbf]

[thatmintleaf]

New 15/20 year (dream)plan:

-Graduate my master (doable. Doing it.)

-Find a good paying job in exploration (I can go in the middle of nowhere for you. I WILL if you pay me <3 I'm good at rocks <3 send me to Antarctica or Greenland for you I am begging on my knees)

-Buy a house (I really want a house of my own sorry)

-Save (?? In this economy? I can certainly try)

-Get a degree in mythology or adjacent subjects (while working?? Maybe?? Hard but might as well give it a shot if things go right), my true great passion

-Leave exploration once I'm too tired to go on big adventures and find a job in my second field, going on smaller adventures in archeological sites. Maybe teaching? I'd like to teach tbh

-Idk, live long and prosper and learn new languages I guess

(Please note, I am NOT American. This is thought for the country I currently live in, which is not the us, but in Europe. I am also being overly optimistic.)

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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