Sally Jean Floyd

Born: 1950

Died: 2019

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

University of Michigan-1969 attended 1 year before transferring; University of California-Berkeley BA Sociology 1971, MS 1987 & PhD 1989 both in Computer Science; Merritt College 2 year electronics course

"“I hadn’t necessarily planned to stay in networking for years,” she said. “But for me, network research is more satisfying than theoretical computer science. I find I am happier in the applied world, where the consequences of my work are more tangible.” (nytimes.com); "

— Sally Jean Floyd

Field of Study: Computer Science

Institution/Corporation: International Computer Science Institute

Degrees & Memberships: Member: Internet Architecture Board; ACM SIGCOMM

Awards: 2007 SIG COMM Award, ACM; 2001 William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award, IEEE; 2005 Internet Award, IEEE

Achievements: invented Random Early Detection (RED) for congestion control, an active queue management scheme; with Van Jacobson founded the field of Active Queue Management (AQM); devised the now-common method of adding delay jitter to message timers to avoid synchronization; 1997 with Vern Paxson identified the lack of knowledge of network topology as the major obstacle in understanding how the Internet works; 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);