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Captain of MIT Varsity Tennis Team 1968-69
Bob Metcalfe
Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Internet pioneer since 1970 at MIT, Harvard, Xerox PARC, Stanford, and his Silicon Valley startup 3Com.
Inventor of Ethernet 1973.
Founder of 3Com 1979.
Ethernet is computer networking technology proposed on May 22, 1973 -- 50 years ago. Ethernet has since been reinvented, standardized, and commercialized into the billions.
Bob Metcalfe just received the $1M Turing Award -- "Nobel Prize in Computing" -- for leading Ethernet's invention, standardization, and commercialization.
A fun fact about me
Captain of MIT Varsity Tennis Team 1968-69
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