Sally Floyd

January 10, 2024
Computer Scientist

Quick Facts

Sally Floyd
Full Name Sally Floyd
Occupation Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth May 20, 1950(1950-05-20)
Age 74
Date Of Death August 25, 2019 (aged 69); Berkeley, California
Birthplace Charlottesville
Country United States
Birth City Virginia
Horoscope Taurus

Sally Floyd Biography

Name Sally Floyd
Birthday May 20
Birth Year 1950
Place Of Birth Charlottesville
Home Town Virginia
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Taurus
Parents Edwin E. Floyd

Sally Floyd is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on May 20, 1950 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Floyd received a BA in Sociology from the University of California – Berkeley in 1971. She received an MS in Computer Science in 1987 and a PhD in 1989, both from UC – Berkeley.

Floyd, with Vern Paxson, in 1997 identified the lack of knowledge of network topology as the major obstacle in understanding how the Internet works. This paper, “Why We Don’t Know How to Simulate the Internet”, was re-published as “Difficulties in Simulating the Internet” in 2001 and won the IEEE Communications Society’s William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award.

Sally Floyd Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Computer Scientist
House Living in own house.

Sally Floyd is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sally Floyd 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sally Jean Floyd (May 20, 1950 – August 25, 2019) was an American computer scientist known for her work on computer networking. Formerly associated with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she retired in 2009 and died in August 2019. She is best known for her work on Internet congestion control, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.

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Sam Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sally Floyd celebrates birthday on May 20 of every year.

What did sally Floyd invent?

CS alumna Sally Floyd (M.S. ’87/Ph. D. ’89, advisor: Richard Karp), best known as one of the inventors of Random Early Detection (RED), an active queue management scheme widely credited with saving the internet from collapse in the 1990s, has died at age 69.

Where did Sally Floyd live?

Sally Floyd, a computer scientist whose work in the early 1990s on controlling congestion on the internet continues to play a vital role in its stability, died on Aug. 25 at her home in Berkeley, Calif.

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