Sally Floyd

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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.

Career

1. 1950
   Born
2. 2001
   Member of Association for Computing Machinery
3. 2001
   Won ACM Fellow
4. 2005
   Won IEEE Internet Award
5. 2007
   Won SIGCOMM Award
6. 2019
   Passed away
7. Member of Internet Architecture Board
8. Notable work: RFC 2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
9. Notable work: Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
10. Notable work: Scalable timers for soft state protocols
11. Notable work: A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Charlottesville
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: computer scientist