I'd always wanted to meet her. RIP. ----- Forwarded message from Craig Partridge <[email protected]> -----
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:47:29 -0600 From: Craig Partridge <[email protected]> To: internet history <[email protected]> Subject: [ih] Sally Floyd has died Just saw a post from Eddie Kohler that Sally Floyd has died. She packed a huge number of achievements into a relatively short career in networking (less than 20 years from PhD to retirement). She developed RED for congestion control with Van Jacobson, identified the issues in Poisson modeling with Vern Paxson, developed TCP SACK, to name a few of her important contributions. At one point (and perhaps still) she was one of the top 10 cited women in computing. I think she won almost every award the communications field could give. She was also a great colleague. I got to work somewhat closely with her on the End-to-End Task Force for many years. She had a knack for presenting stunning insights quietly and articulately, which made the insights all the more stunning. Our world is a bit smaller. Craig -- ***** Craig Partridge's email account for professional society activities and mailing lists. _______ internet-history mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history Contact [email protected] for assistance. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- My email server only sends and accepts starttls encrypted mail in transit. One benefit - it stops all spams thus far, cold. If you are not encrypting by default you are not going to get my mail or I, yours. _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
