Robert Metcalfe
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 79 |
| Date of birth | April 7,1946 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | New York |
| United States | |
| Thesis | Packet Communication |
| Job | Entrepreneur |
| Inventor | |
| Businessperson | |
| Computer scientist | |
| Electrical engineer | |
| Education | MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Harvard University | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Books | Packet Communication |
| Internet collapses and other InfoWorld punditry | |
| Subjective Well-being: Weather Matters ; Climate Doesn't | |
| Awards | IEEE Medal of Honor |
| Marconi Prize | |
| IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal | |
| Grace Murray Hopper Award | |
| Turing Award | |
| Affiliations | University Of Texas At Austin |
| Founded | 3Com |
| Interests | Innovation And Entrepreneurship |
| Internet | |
| Spous | Robyn |
| Movies/Shows | Transcendent Man |
| Academic advisor | Jeffrey P. Buzen |
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| ID | 520652 |
Robert Metcalfe Life story
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.