Born in 1951, Radia attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she earned her Ph.D. in computer science. In the 1970s she developed a child-friendly education language call TORTIS, and later invented the Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol which transformed ethernet from a single wire Carrier-Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) into a protocol that could handle large clouds. Radia is known as the ‘mother of the internet’ and for creating the fundamentals for the operation of network bridges.
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