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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.
Ethernet. Computing and Telecommunications. Robert M. "Bob" Metcalfe, developer of Ethernet and other Internet-related technologies, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946.
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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.
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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 · Bob Metcalfe has won the 2022 Turing Award, the computing industry's top prize, for creating the Ethernet standard that today connects billions of devices to wired and wireless networks.
Mar 22, 2023 · Bob Metcalfe, an inventor of the Ethernet, holding an original piece of Ethernet cable removed from the Palo Alto Research Center. Kim Kulish/Corbis, via Getty Images. By Cade Metz. Cade Metz...
development of. Ethernet. In Ethernet. …led by American electrical engineer Robert Metcalfe, sought to create a technology that could connect many computers over long distances.
