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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.
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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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Robert M. "Bob" Metcalfe, developer of Ethernet and other Internet-related technologies, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946. Fascinated by technology and gadgets as a child, he already knew at the age of ten that he wanted to become an electrical engineer and attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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 computer industry standard.
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.
May 22, 2023 · Robert “Bob” Metcalfe—American engineer born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946—is a key figure in the story of how Ethernet came to be. While Metcalfe is most well-known for co-inventing Ethernet, he proclaims to have had more than six careers. Robert Metcalfe. Image used courtesy of MIT. Here’s a look at the six careers of Robert Metcalfe.
- Chantelle Dubois
Known among his colleagues as an “engineer’s engineer,” Robert Metcalfe is the driving force behind one of the most transformative technologies of the 20th century and beyond—one that nearly all of us use every single day.
Born April 7, 1946. Robert Metcalfe invented, standardized, and commercialized Ethernet. Developed as a way to link the computers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to one another, Ethernet uses digital packets and distributed controls to transmit data over what would become the most widely used local area network, or LAN.
