Received the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science
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Robert Metcalfe
Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe 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. Metcalfe has also made several predictions which failed to come to pass, including forecasting the demise of the internet during…
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business · American engineer (born 1946) · computer scientist · inventor · engineer · businessperson · university teacher · electrical engineer · mathematician · economist · also Robert Metcalfe, Robert Melancton Metcalf, Robert Melancton Metcalfe, Bob Metcalfe, Robert M. Metcalfe, Metcalfe
Born 7 April 1946 · Q92766
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Awarded Turing Award for Ethernet (2022).
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2019· 1 entry
Presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2013).
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2008).
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Received the Fellow Award from the Computer History Museum "for fundamental contributions to the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded Marconi Prize (2003).
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Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2003).
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"for leadership in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet"
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2001· 1 entry
And subsequently a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners
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1997· 1 entry
Took a printed copy of his column that predicted the collapse, put it in a blender with some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded EFF Award (1996).
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Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1996).
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Metcalfe was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor for "exemplary and sustained leadership in the development, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet
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1995· 1 entry
Metcalfe argued that the Internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" in the following year; he promised to eat his words if it did not
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1990· 1 entry
The 3Com board of directors appointed Éric Benhamou as CEO instead of Metcalfe, who then left the company
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1988· 1 entry
Won IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1988).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1980).
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Received the ACM Grace Hopper Award for his contributions to the development of local networks, specifically Ethernet
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1979· 1 entry
Metcalfe departed PARC and co-founded 3Com, a manufacturer of computer networking equipment, in his Palo Alto apartment
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1973· 2 entries
The day he circulated a memo titled "Alto Ethernet" which contained a rough schematic of how it would work
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When he and David Boggs invented Ethernet, initially as a standard for connecting computers over short distances
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1970· 1 entry
And a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 1973
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1969· 1 entry
Receiving two Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and industrial management
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1946· 2 entries
Born 1946-04-07.
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In New York, New York, to Ruth and Robert Metcalfe
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