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Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet , co-founded 3Com , and formulated Metcalfe's law , which describes the effect of a telecommunications network.
- Robert Melancton Metcalfe, April 7, 1946 (age 77), New York City, U.S.
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With Boggs, Metcalfe invented what has come to be known as Ethernet, the local area networking (LAN) technology that turns PCs into communication tools by linking them together. Eventually, the technology would be used to link together more than 50 million PCs worldwide.
Robert Metcalfe Today Robert Metcalfe left Xerox in 1979 to promote the use of personal computers and local area networks. He successfully convinced the Digital Equipment, Intel and Xerox corporations to work together to promote Ethernet as a standard. He succeeded as Ethernet is now the most widely-installed LAN protocol and an international ...
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May 22, 2021 · Metcalfe retired from 3Com in 1990. He was editor of InfoWorld magazine for ten years. In 1995, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, he received the National Medal of Technology for the invention of Ethernet.
Mar 22, 2023 · Robert “Bob” Metcalfe ’69, an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) research affiliate and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, has been awarded the 2022 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for his invention of Ethernet.
One of the most ubiquitous and important, even half a century after it was first conceived, is Ethernet technology, the brainchild of visionary electrical engineer Robert Metcalfe. Like many inventions, Ethernet was born out of practical necessity, to fulfill a specific need.
May 22, 2023 · 50 years ago today, on May 22, 1973, Robert Metcalfe wrote a memo to management at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center explaining how Ethernet could work. Ethernet is a foundational technology supporting the modern-day internet, and anyone who has had to deal with networking is likely familiar with the IEEE 802.3 standard first published in 1980.
