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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. Metcalfe was ...
Metcalfe: I am a Viking American. My grandparents arrived in New York City around 1900 from the four Viking capitals of the North Atlantic: Oslo, Bergin, Leads and Dublin. They intermarried, and then they moved to Brooklyn and had children, and then my parents were born: Robert Metcalfe, my father, and Ruth Metcalfe, my mother.
Robert Metcalfe. Robert “Bob” Metcalfe’s career in computer communications began in 1969 when, as a graduate student looking for a part-time job, he was offered the opportunity to connect one of the PDP-10 computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to the Arpanet. In one propitious moment, a motivated young scientist was ...
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Swansea, United Kingdom. I am a first-gen college graduate. I am also co-founder of two companies, The Behavioralist and Signol . Professor Robert Metcalfe, Economist, United States, Economics, Experiments, Behavior Change, Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics.
25 Feb 2016 · Robert M. Metcalfe was born in April 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a B.S. degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1969. He received an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1970. In 1973 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard for ...
22 Mei 2021 · Robert Metcalfe – Early Years. Metcalfe was born in 1946, in Brooklyn, NY. In 1964, Metcalfe graduated from Bay Shore High School. He graduated from MIT in 1969 with two B.S. degrees, one in Electrical Engineering and the other in Industrial Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and businessman. He is important in the Internet's creation starting in 1970. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law. He has been Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at The University of Texas at Austin.
