This would have made for an interesting article, but as a podcast transcript it's virtually unreadable. It also reads like they're talking to children. The Wikipedia article is much better, but too short:
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)
Here you go. Hope you enjoy the article, I am gonna go read it too now.
(PS: I have created htmlpipe and I have written enough about it in submissions/comments etc. so I will let the project speak for itself now but feel free to ask me any questions as I love to talk and also a minor wish but I hope that more people could use my software but no biggies if they don't as I am happy using it for myself because I built it for myself and to help others! Have a nice day)
TLDR: 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
I bet someone read the paper she co-authored and that might have had some influence on the code that they ended up writing. Her husband worked on ARPAnet, surely he would have mentioned that paper to someone!
This would have made for an interesting article, but as a podcast transcript it's virtually unreadable. It also reads like they're talking to children. The Wikipedia article is much better, but too short:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm
https://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)
https://web.archive.org/web/20260520202425/https://serjaimel...
Here you go. Hope you enjoy the article, I am gonna go read it too now.
(PS: I have created htmlpipe and I have written enough about it in submissions/comments etc. so I will let the project speak for itself now but feel free to ask me any questions as I love to talk and also a minor wish but I hope that more people could use my software but no biggies if they don't as I am happy using it for myself because I built it for myself and to help others! Have a nice day)
topics like this are why i come to HN
And married to Barry Boehm of Software Engineering Economics fame. That was one smart couple!
See, Scientific American says that a woman’s code underpins the Internet.
Many people's code underpins the internet. Some of them are women, yes. I wonder if you've ever heard of Grace Hopper.
And they deadnamed her:(
Huh?
> 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.
TLDR: 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.
I bet someone read the paper she co-authored and that might have had some influence on the code that they ended up writing. Her husband worked on ARPAnet, surely he would have mentioned that paper to someone!