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Robert " Bob " Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) [2] [3] 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.
Computing and Telecommunications. Robert M. "Bob" Metcalfe, developer of Ethernet and other Internet-related technologies, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946.
Articles 1–20. The University of Texas at Austin - Cited by 6,529 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Internet.
14 Feb 2019 · 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.
22 Mac 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.
22 Mac 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.
16 Jan 2024 · 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.
