Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
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Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
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Re: Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
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#3TLDR: Sharla Boehm helped invent packet switching, a.k.a. "hot potato routing", and wrote the first implementation which proved that it could work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm
Re: Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
#4TLDR: Sharla Boehm helped invent packet switching, a.k.a. "hot potato routing", and wrote the first implementation which proved that it could work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm
[And/But] whose code is [/not] present in today’s packet routing code
Do we know which?
Re: Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
#5> If this was 2025, this would be called machine learning because that's really what it was.
It would be called "machine learning" because that's the buzzword du jour.
> She was teaching the network to learn how to respond to nodes dropping out.
That's just called "writing software" not "teaching the network."
> Machine learning was definitely nonexistent at that point.
Are you sure about that?
> And yet, if you look at this 1964 paper, it's kind of unquestionably what it is.
The document: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3103.html
The claim: highly questionable.
The paper is interesting in it's own right, but, to hype it up in this way is gross.
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Many people's code underpins the internet. Some of them are women, yes. I wonder if you've ever heard of Grace Hopper.
Re: Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
#8TLDR: Sharla Boehm helped invent packet switching, a.k.a. "hot potato routing", and wrote the first implementation which proved that it could work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm
[And/But] whose code is [/not] present in today’s packet routing code Do we know which?
Since it was a simulation written in Fortran, the odds of it actually being used for routing is pretty small.
Re: Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
#9https://archive.ph/VlbdQ
For some reason that particular site sticks me into a CAPTCHA loop. (it does work after I open it incognito though, but I still get hit with a CAPTCHA the first time)
Re: Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet
#10And married to Barry Boehm of Software Engineering Economics fame. That was one smart couple!