ACM honored Perlman for her lifetime contributions to communication networks.
On August 30, 2010, Radia Perlman received the ACM SIGCOMM Award for lifetime contributions to the field of communication networks. Her pivotal innovations, such as the development of the Spanning Tree Protocol, were instrumental in advancing network architectures that are capable of supporting the expansive scale of the modern Internet. This award underscored her role as a trailblazer in data communication, whose work has set new standards in network reliability and scalability.