Radia Perlman, born in 1951, is a computer programmer and network engineer who is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is an essential part of the Internet's underlying foundation. STP allows network bridges to communicate with each other to avoid loops in a local area network (LAN), making Perlman a crucial figure in the development of today's global internet infrastructure.
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