# Radia Perlman (@radia-perlman)

Radia Perlman is a network engineer and computer scientist known for foundational work on robust network routing and bridging.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Radia Perlman's public record._

## Topics

- [Network design](/@radia-perlman/network-design.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Network security](/@radia-perlman/security.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Spanning Tree Protocol](/@radia-perlman/spanning-tree.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.ll.mit.edu/biographies/radia-perlman
- blog: https://www.invent.org/inductees/radia-perlman
- blog: https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/perlman_1731747

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "radia-perlman", "question": "…"}`.