Nuclear war was a very real threat in the 1960s

RAND Corporation

How smart must she have been to get hired?

Distributed Network – great idea but will it work?

The internet is a packet switched network

Vary parameters to see change in results = parametric simulation

Machine Learning 1964

Sharla’s network learned how to route messages efficiently if the network was damaged

Parametric Simulation 1964

IBM 7090

A historic piece of FORTRAN code

The Internet sprouted from here

Maybe Sharla Boehm’s name should be on this list?

And perhaps on this list also?

Hmm, tic-tac-toe or self-healing packet switched network routing?

Thanks for the internet, Sharla

And also for helping to pioneer

Machine Learning and Parametric Simulation