Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1946 · age 80
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 AwardAward2013Internet Hall of FameAward2008Computer History Museum FellowAward2007National Inventors Hall of FameAward2003Marconi PrizeAwardNational Medal of Technology and InnovationAward1996EFF AwardAwardIEEE Medal of HonorAward1988IEEE Alexander Graham Bell MedalAward1980Grace Murray Hopper AwardAward1946Born7 April 1946
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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
