It was only when occasionally there was a(nother) female in a class that I’d notice that it kind of looked weird…this other gender person looking curiously out of place in the crowd. “It became so normal to me not to see women around that I didn’t notice the gender imbalance. “I went to MIT at a time when the number of females was strictly limited by the number that could fit into the single female dorm, so there were very few women (I think 50 out of a class of 1000),” Dr. Perlman adapted the educational programming language developed by her supervisor into a language called Toddler’s Own Recursive Turtle Interpreter System, or TORTIS for short, which was aimed at children to help them learn programming 3. Perlman was hired as a part-time programmer at her alma mater’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 1. Perlman attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she earned a BS and an MS degree in Mathematics in 19 respectively 1. “I never took things apart or built a computer out of spare parts” 2.Īfter excelling in primary and secondary school, Dr. Perlman in an interview with The Atlantic. However, I did not fit the stereotype of the “engineer,” said Dr. I always liked logic puzzles and I found math and science classes in school effortless and fascinating. Perlman was a gifted student in math and science 1. Born on Decemin Portsmouth, Virginia to her father, an engineer, and her mother, a mathematician and computer programmer, Dr. Radia Perlman’s introduction to programming came early.
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