Sally Floyd

For the comic book character, see Sally Floyd (comics).
Sally Floyd
Born(1950-05-20)May 20, 1950
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
DiedAugust 25, 2019(2019-08-25) (aged 69)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA, MS, PhD)
Known forRandom early detection
Explicit congestion notification
Floyd Synchronization
Selective acknowledgement
Spouse
Carole Leita
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(m. 2013)​
AwardsSIGCOMM Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Thesis On Space-Bounded Learning and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension  (1989)
Doctoral advisorRichard M. Karp[1]

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.[2] 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.[3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference phd_thesis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Internet Architecture Board (27 August 2019). "Sally Floyd".
  3. ^ "Sally Floyd Wins 2007 SIGCOMM Award", ICSI, Sept. 2007 (last visited Oct. 7, 2012).
  4. ^ Hafner, Katie (4 September 2019). "Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies at 69". New York Times. Retrieved 5 September 2019.