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Background. Robert Melancton Metcalfe is Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) after 11 years at The University of Texas at Austin. He has recently become a Research Affiliate in Computational Engineering at his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence ...
Robert Metcalfe on influencing opinions toward new technologies If you’ve ever wirelessly browsed the Internet on your home computer, you’ve been tapped into local area network, or LAN, technologies—the most common of which was created by engineer, technology executive and venture capitalist Robert Metcalfe.
Robert M. Metcalfe was born in Brooklyn and grew up in a suburban ranch house in Bay Shore on New York’s Long Island. His father was a unionized technician in an aerospace company whose work focused on testing gyroscopes. Metcalfe inherited his father’s love of technology, playing with toy trains and building machines from relays.
Metcalfe is recognized for creating the foundational technology of the Internet which supports more than 5 billion users and enables much of modern life. ACM has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet. Metcalfe is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical ...
On the brink of what he calls his “sixth career, whatever that’s going to turn out to be,” Robert M. Metcalfe shares some of the earliest stories from the technology’s history. Regarded as the “Father of Ethernet,” Metcalfe is credited with co-inventing Ethernet while working at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973 ...
Robert Metcalfe. The University of Texas at Austin. ... RM Metcalfe, JB Postel. Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference, 271-279, 1971. 147:
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. The idea ...
