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Robert Metcalfe

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American electrical engineer

United StatesScientistsBorn 1946 · age 80
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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.

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2022Turing Award
2013Internet Hall of Fame
2008Computer History Museum Fellow
2007National Inventors Hall of Fame
2003National Medal of Technology and Innovation
2003Marconi Prize
1996EFF Award
1996IEEE Medal of Honor
1988IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
1980Grace Murray Hopper Award

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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 the 1990s.

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Born 1946 · age 80
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