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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.
Mar 22, 2023 · March 22, 2023. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet. Metcalfe, who earned a PhD in mathematics from Harvard Griffin GSAS in 1973, is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering ...
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 ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Robert Metcalfe; People of ACM - Robert Metcalfe January 16, 2024. In 1973, while working at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), you circulated a memo with an idea for connecting some of the first personal computers—PARC’s Altos—within a building.
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:
Feb 19, 2004 · Robert Metcalfe has made important contributions to the development of the Ethernet. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, where he received a degree in industrial management and a degree in electrical engineering. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He founded 3Com Corporation.
