Now a fellow at EMC, she lives in Redmond, Washington, with her partner, Charlie Kaufman, and is active in the MIT Alumni Club of Puget Sound. She also wrote Interconnections, a widely acclaimed textbook on networking, and coauthored a textbook titled Network Security. Her many honors include being inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Perlman has worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and served as a fellow at Sun Microsystems and Intel Labs.
There she developed TORTIS, a child-friendly version of LOGO used to teach children about computer programming. “A team with different skills, talents, and outlooks is most effective,” she says.Īs an undergrad, she worked part time at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s LOGO Lab, which developed the LOGO robotics language. What matters as much as diversity of gender, she says, is the diversity of thought she found at MIT. She attended MIT at a time when few women did, but she always felt she fit in. Perlman, who holds more than 100 patents, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in math and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science. She also invented fundamental components of network routing that have made networks connected via protocols, such as IP, far less fragile, more scalable, and easier to manage. She developed the algorithm behind the spanning tree protocol that enabled Ethernet technology-once limited to a few hundred nodes confined in a single building-to create large networks of hundreds of thousands of nodes spread over a large area. Perlman’s simple, elegant solutions to networking problems have won her world acclaim.
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