Ethernet Pioneer Bob Metcalfe Named 2022 Turing Award Winner
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The high-tech and venture capital (VC) communities continue to generate charismatic leaders, but few can compete with Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet at Xerox Parc and co-founder of LAN pioneer 3Com in the 1970s.< /p>
Although still an actively developed technology, Ethernet is now overshadowed by closely related Internet technologies and completely unrelated Ethercoin technologies. But it has sown a new world of connectivity.
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Metcalfe's aggressive efforts to advance high-tech and venture capital innovations continue to pay off. Today, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Metcalfe the recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for Inventing, Standardizing, and Commercializing Ethernet.
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Register nowMetcalfe walked with much bluster from his elementary school days, when he told a teacher he would go to MIT – which he did – to his days at the legendary Xerox Park, where he named Ethernet after the imaginary substance that Newton used to describe a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic forces. Metcalfe showed ferocity and flair in the LAN battles that pitted 3Com against IBM, Wang, Ungermann-Bass, Interlan and many more.
Metcalf followed his time at 3Com with forays into publishing (he served as CEO, editor and pundit for InfoWorld Magazine) and building a venture capital community in Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin . Today, he is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin and a research fellow at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
He spoke with VentureBeat just before he officially accepted the Turing Award. (Editor's note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.)
Join senior executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 to learn how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Find out more
The high-tech and venture capital (VC) communities continue to generate charismatic leaders, but few can compete with Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet at Xerox Parc and co-founder of LAN pioneer 3Com in the 1970s.< /p>
Although still an actively developed technology, Ethernet is now overshadowed by closely related Internet technologies and completely unrelated Ethercoin technologies. But it has sown a new world of connectivity.
[Follow VB's Ongoing Nvidia GTC 2022 Coverage”]
Metcalfe's aggressive efforts to advance high-tech and venture capital innovations continue to pay off. Today, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Metcalfe the recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for Inventing, Standardizing, and Commercializing Ethernet.
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Join us in San Francisco on July 11-12, where senior executives will discuss how they've integrated and optimized AI investments for success and avoided common pitfalls.
Register nowMetcalfe walked with much bluster from his elementary school days, when he told a teacher he would go to MIT – which he did – to his days at the legendary Xerox Park, where he named Ethernet after the imaginary substance that Newton used to describe a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic forces. Metcalfe showed ferocity and flair in the LAN battles that pitted 3Com against IBM, Wang, Ungermann-Bass, Interlan and many more.
Metcalf followed his time at 3Com with forays into publishing (he served as CEO, editor and pundit for InfoWorld Magazine) and building a venture capital community in Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin . Today, he is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin and a research fellow at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
He spoke with VentureBeat just before he officially accepted the Turing Award. (Editor's note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.)
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