Sally Floyd
Sally Floyd | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 20, 1950 Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Died | August 25, 2019 (aged 69) Berkeley, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Selective acknowledgement |
| Spouse |
Carole Leita (m. 2013) |
| Awards | SIGCOMM Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | On Space-Bounded Learning and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard M. Karp[1] |
Sally Jean Floyd (May 20, 1950 – August 25, 2019) was an American
congestion control, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.[3][4]
Biography
Born in
University of California - Berkeley in 1971. She received an MS in Computer Science in 1987 and a PhD in 1989, both from UC - Berkeley.[5] Her PhD was completed under the supervision of Richard M. Karp.[1]
Floyd is best known in the field of
delay jitter to message timers to avoid synchronization.[6]
Floyd, with
IEEE Communications Society
's William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award.
Floyd is also a co-author on the standard for TCP
Selective acknowledgement (SACK), Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) and TCP Friendly Rate Control
(TFRC).
She received the IEEE Internet Award in 2005 and the ACM SIGCOMM Award in 2007 for her contributions to congestion control.[3] She has been involved in the Internet Architecture Board, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.[3]
Awards
- 2007 - SIGCOMM Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Recognized as most prestigious award to a scientist in computer networking.[3]
- IEEE Communications Society's William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award for "Difficulties in Simulating the Internet", by Floyd and Vern Paxson[3]
Personal life and death
Floyd's father Edwin was a mathematician at the University of Virginia. Floyd was married to Carole Leita.[4]
Floyd died at the age of 69 on August 25, 2019, in Berkeley, California, from gallbladder cancer that had metastasized.[4][8]
Selected notable papers
- S. Floyd and V. Jacobson, "Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1993)
- S. Floyd and K. Fall, "Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1993)
- V. Paxson and S. Floyd, "Wide Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson Modeling", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1995)
- M. Mathis, J. Mahdavi and S Floyd, A Romanow, "TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options", RFC 2018 (1996)
- S. Floyd and V. Paxson, "Why We Don't Know How to Simulate the Internet", Dec. 1997, Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference. Re-written as "Difficulties in Simulating the Internet", IEEE Communications SocietyWilliam R. Bennett Prize Paper Award, 2001.
References
- ^ a b Floyd, Sally. On Space-Bounded Learning and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension (Thesis). p. 4.
- ^ Internet Architecture Board (27 August 2019). "Sally Floyd".
- ^ a b c d e f g "Sally Floyd Wins 2007 SIGCOMM Award", ICSI, Sept. 2007 (last visited Oct. 7, 2012).
- ^ a b c Hafner, Katie (4 September 2019). "Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies at 69". New York Times. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ Sally Floyd. "Biography". Retrieved 2011-03-24.
- ^ IEEE, "Sally Floyd", IEEE Global History Network (last visited Oct. 7, 2012).
- ^ Albert-laszlo Barabasi and Jennifer Frangos, Linked: The New Science of Networks (Basic Books, 2002), p.150.
- ^ Hafner, Katie (September 8, 2019). "Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies at 69". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
External links
- Sally Floyd's biography at ICSI retrieved 8th Jan 2011
