"Mother Of The Cloud" was a title assigned to Judy Estrin by Forbes publisher, Rich Karlgaard, who prefaced his interview with this potent summary of her career:

Judy Estrin is the most influential Silicon Valley woman you’ve probably never heard of. A Los Angeles native and the daughter of two UCLA computer scientists, Estrin, a UCLA graduate herself, later studied at Stanford under the legendary Vint Cerf, developer of the Internet’s popular protocol, TCP/IP. As a scientist and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Estrin co-founded three companies that had successful exits: two IPOs (one later acquired by 3Com), the other an acquisition by Cisco. Estrin later served as Cisco’s chief technical officer and also as a board member at FedEx and Disney. In 2000 she wrote a paper that helped popularize today’s ubiquitous term “cloud computing.”

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