American engineer who co-invented Ethernet with David Boggs at Xerox PARC in 1973 and went on to found the networking company 3Com. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame 2 AwardGrace Murray Hopper Award 2 AwardIEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 2 AwardComputer History Museum Fellow 2 AwardNational Medal of Technology and Innovation 2 Contribution Kind Connections
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Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s.
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Metcalfe was working at PARC in 1973 when he and David Boggs invented Ethernet, initially as a standard for connecting computers over short distances.
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Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) 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.
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View the Source3. Computer History Museum: Robert Metcalfe, Computer History Museum Fellow
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For fundamental contributions to the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet
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