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Meet 'the mother of the internet' | IWD 2022

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This week on Tech & Science Daily, to mark International Women’s Day, we’re speaking to some of the world-leading women in their fields. Today is the turn of computer programmer and network engineer, Radia Perlman. She is known by many as ‘the mother of the internet’ - although she’s been trying to shake that title for years.

Radia invented the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - an innovation that helped make today's Internet possible. Although, she believes it’s not just one person who is responsible for the internet as we now know it.

She explains how she created the STP - and a poem to go along with it - following an ‘impossible’ task set by her boss whilst he was away.

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