18 Facts About Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network.

Robert Bob Metcalfe was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York.

Bob Metcalfe's father was a test technician who specialized in gyroscopes.

Bob Metcalfe's mother was a homemaker, but later became the secretary at Bay Shore High School.

In 1964, Bob Metcalfe graduated from Bay Shore High School to join the MIT Class of 1968.

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Bob Metcalfe finally graduated from MIT in 1969 with two S B degrees, one in electrical engineering and the other in industrial management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

At MAC, Bob Metcalfe was responsible for building some of the hardware that would link MIT's minicomputers with the ARPAnet.

Bob Metcalfe identified and fixed some of the bugs in the AlohaNet model and made his analysis part of a revised thesis, which finally earned him his Harvard PhD in 1973.

Bob Metcalfe was working at PARC in 1973 when he and David Boggs invented Ethernet, initially a standard for connecting computers over short distances.

In 1979, Bob Metcalfe departed PARC and co-founded 3Com, a manufacturer of computer networking equipment, in his Palo Alto apartment.

Bob Metcalfe left 3Com and began a 10-year stint as a publisher and pundit, writing an Internet column for InfoWorld.

Bob Metcalfe became a venture capitalist in 2001 and is a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners.

In November 2010 Bob Metcalfe was selected to lead innovation initiatives at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering.

Bob Metcalfe began his appointment in January 2011 and retired as an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the end of 2021.

Bob Metcalfe was a keynote speaker at the 2016 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders and in 2019 he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa.

In June of 2022, Bob Metcalfe announced he would be returning to MIT full-time to join the CSAIL lab as a Research Affiliate and Computational Engineer working with the MIT Julia Lab.

In May 2007, along with 17 others, Bob Metcalfe, was inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, for his work with Ethernet technology.

Bob Metcalfe predicted in 1995 that the Internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" the following year; he promised to eat his words if it did not.