Radia Perlman, Sun Labs Distinguished Engineer

Awarded an Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award in Innovation

October 18, 2005 - The Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards recognize women contributing significantly to technology, through Innovation, Social Impact or Leadership. The Institute honored Perlman with an award in Innovation October 18, 2005, at the Women of Vision Awards dinner for her work in networking technology development, specializing in network and security protocols. Radia Perlman is renowned for her invention of the Spanning Tree Algorithm, which is deployed in all of today's Local Area Networks, and for her innovations that have made link state routing protocols robust, efficient, and scalable. She has also made major contributions to network security protocols and key management.