Intel Fellow, Radia Perlman, has been awarded the highest honor from ACM’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) for pioneering contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols. I had the good fortune to meet with Radia to talk about her research contributions and find out what she is up to these days. It was an unexpected surprise to also have her recite a poem she wrote in her dissortation!

Radia will receive the award and deliver the keynote address at the ACM SIGCOMM conference on August 31, in New Delhi, India.