Join the School of Business for an inspiring and insightful conversation with Dr. Radia Perlman, widely celebrated as the “Mother of the Internet.” Radia has profoundly shaped the fields of network routing and security protocols, leaving a permanent mark on modern technology. Her innovative designs, including the IS-IS link-state routing protocol and the Spanning Tree Protocol, revolutionized network architecture, enabling scalable and resilient Ethernet networks that underpin the internet as we know it today. 

In this Business of Science series, Radia will sit down with the Dean Jennifer McLoud-Mann from the School of STEM for an engaging conversation about her remarkable journey, from her early career to her groundbreaking contributions.  

• 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Conversation with Radia | Discovery Hall, room 162
• 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Reception with appetizers | The Collaboratory in Discovery Hall

Radia Biography: Radia Perlman is a Fellow at Dell Technologies. She has made many contributions to the fields of network routing and security protocols. Her IS-IS link state routing protocol design continues to be widely deployed today, and the principles have been incorporated into other routing protocols (such as OSPF). Her spanning tree bridging design transformed Ethernet from a single shared link to a network that can support many.  Her contributions to network security include designing systems resilient to malicious. She wrote the textbook “Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols”, and cowrote the textbook “Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World.” The 3rd edition of Network Security was recently published, and includes significant content about quantum computing and quantum-safe public key algorithms. She has received numerous awards including induction into the Inventor Hall of Fame, induction into the Internet Hall of Fame, lifetime achievement awards from ACM’s SIGCOMM and Usenix, election to National Academy of Engineering, election into the Washington State Academy of Science, and an honorary doctorate from KTH. She has taught courses at various universities including University of Washington, Texas A&M, MIT, and Harvard. She has a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.