Turing Award Honors Bob Metcalfe for Invention, Standardization, and Commercialization of Ethernet

"In 1973, while a computer scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Metcalfe circulated a now-famous memo describing a “broadcast communication network” for connecting some of the first personal computers, PARC’s Altos, within a building. The first Ethernet ran at 2.94 megabits per second, which was about 10,000 times faster than the terminal networks it would replace."

picture: Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs, 1984, celebrating shipment of 3Com’s 500,000th Ethernet NIC (Network Interface Card).

David is holding the 0th Ethernet NIC that the two of them built at Xerox Parc in 1973. The 0th Ethernet transceiver is on the table.

https://awards.acm.org/about/2022-turing #turingaward #ethernet #bobmetcalfe

Congratulations. 🙂

"[Bob] Metcalfe was named the winner of the A.M. Turing Award, an annual prize considered the highest honor in computer science, for his part in ushering in our hyperconnected age. Fifty years ago, Metcalfe helped invent Ethernet, the local networking technology that links personal computers around the world to the global internet"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/bob-metcalfe-ethernet-pioneer-wins-turing-award-20230322/

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Turing Award Won by Co-Inventor of Ethernet Technology - In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/technology/turing-award-bob-metcalfe-ethernet.html #paloaltoresearchcenter(parc) #awardsdecorationsandhonors #computersandtheinternet #boggsdavid(1950-2022) #xeroxcorporation #turingaward #bobmetcalfe