![]() ![]() She wrote the algorithm for STP in less than a week, capping her work by writing a playful poem to describe her invention. There, in 1976, she created TORTIS, a child-friendly version of the LOGO programming language, which children as young as three could use to control a robot. Perlman earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD from MIT while doing research for course credits through the university’s artificial intelligence laboratory. “The industry is truly lucky to have her,” she added.A software designer and network engineer, Radia Perlman earned a place in internet history for creating the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) which governs how information is sent between servers. “A lot of the stuff she said I can correlate and use,” she said. She is also an engineering student and felt inspired by Perlman’s words. WSU student Ashley Fern could also relate to Perlman’s speech. She liked that Perlman encouraged the women to continue to be themselves in spite of the low numbers of women in the field. “It’s hard to find women as humble and as accomplished,” Cope said. “She was very fascinating and inspiring,” Cope said of Perlman. “She was very encouraging,” she added.Įlaine Cope is a WSU student and secretary of the Society of Women Engineers. She also liked the real-world advice of how to deal with people in the workforce and in life. “She hit on a lot of points that I can relate to as woman and an engineer,” she said. Niki LeClair is in the engineering field at Hill Air Force Base and came to listen to Perlman’s address because of her chosen field. She advised women not to expect special treatment and told them they shouldn’t get special treatment either. “It is an intimidating field,” she added. “It is so sad, and not true,” she said, but also noted that plenty of men feel the same way. She has noticed that women work to be managers rather than stay in the technical field and when asked why, they say they aren’t smart enough to stay in the technical field. ![]() She also spoke specifically to women and how it has been to be one of a handful in most of her workplaces through the years. “Criticizing on technical grounds or proposing alternative ideas is not bad behavior,” she said. She talked about the importance of being nice and working with others in the workplace and in the classroom, right down to where you sit at lunch, offering suggestions on lunchtime conversations and how they can be times to learn new things about the world around them. “We will have better technology if we simply discuss things,” she said. She told people that being nice in any career field is the best possible way to go. She told the group it is important to stand up to them and to realize that they often don’t really know what they are talking about and to remember that. “Standing up to them is hard because they are so used to being worshipped for every syllable that comes out of their mouth,” she said. She said she has run into a lot in her field. She spoke to the issue of bullies and advised on how to handle them. She said that much confusion with simple computer lingo could be diverted if engineers tried to think of talking with humans instead of computers. “Engineers ought to meet humans,” she joked. ![]() Perlman joked with the audience and gave tips on how engineers can work better with others. She added that today people may not find as much success with writing a book because of all the information now available on the Internet. “I would talk to sneeringly condescending people that wouldn’t take an extra look at me but when they realized I wrote a book and they had read the book it made a difference,” she said with a laugh. She added that it has been easier to talk about the things she has learned and accomplished through her book writing. “Writing books absolutely changed my career,” Perlman said. She told the crowd that if it weren’t for her books she would not be as well known as she is today in the technology and engineering community. Perlman is known for work in networking and engineering with the Internet and played a key role in the development of the modern Internet. WSU’s Society of Women Engineers and the school’s Technology Outreach Center sponsored Perlman’s visit Thursday in honor of National Engineers Week. OGDEN - Radia Perlman, who some refer to as the “mother of the Internet,” gave what many engineering students called an amazing and inspiring lecture to current and budding engineers at Weber State University. ![]()
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