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	Bob Metcalfe
		Metcalfe was born in 1946, in Brooklyn, NY.
		Metcalfe was excited about the ARAPNET and made it the topic of his doctoral dissertation.
		Metcalfe's new dissertation was accepted and he finally got his Ph.D. Vint Cerf talks about the Alohanet.
	www.ibiblio.org /pioneers/metcalfe.html (705 words)

	Robert (Bob) Metcalfe
		The son of Thomas and Elizabeth Metcalfe, Bob was born at Rishton in 1896.
		Bob survived the fateful day unscathed, and was promoted to Acting Lance Corporal two weeks later as the battalion returned to the trenches in the Neuve Chapelle sector.
		The severity of Bob's wounds is evident from his transfer to the 25th (Garrison Guard) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) on 24th April 1918, the battalion being largely composed of men who were considered unfit for active service either because of age or owing to poor health.
	www.pals.org.uk /metcalfe.htm (1275 words)

	Alphachimp@Pop!Tech 2005: Bob Metcalfe
		Bob M. Metcalfe is a high-tech venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts.
		Bob is especially proud of his four honorary doctorates, from DePaul University, University of Maine, Bay Path College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
		Bob was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946.
	www.alphachimp.com /poptech/2005/Bob-Metcalfe.htm (461 words)

	Om and Niall PodSessions: Is Metcalfe's Law Wrong?
		In a recent issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine Bob Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko, and Benjamin Tilly, three respected academics argued that the Metcalfe's Law - which states that the value of the network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system - is wrong and dangerous.
		Bob Metcalfe doesn't think so, and defends the Law and in a long chat argues that as the networks evolve, so does the law.
		This is Om Malik from gigaom.com, talking to Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and the author of "Metcalfe's Law." We are talking today about the relevance of Metcalfe's Law in the age of social networking and what people are beginning to call "the long tail." Hi, Bob, how are you?
	onpodsessions.com /2006/08/is_metcalfes_law_wrong.html (3350 words)

	Wired 6.11: The Legend of Bob Metcalfe
		Talk to enough of Metcalfe's pals in industry and academe, and you'll run into several who think the writing life is, well, not the optimal use of Metcalfe's talents.
		Metcalfe, who comes across as a man who has never known defeat, took up writing in 1990 after losing a boardroom skirmish at 3Com.
		Metcalfe, by contrast, is a cauldron of charisma.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe.html (912 words)

	WWW6: Bob Metcalfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bob's Internet column in InfoWorld has 489,000 readers during a average week, which would be when he's not predicting collapses of the Internet or suggesting we pay postage on e-mail.
		Bob received his PhD in computer science from Harvard in 1973 and was appointed consulting associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford after teaching part time there for eight years.
		However, Bob thinks of himself as a former engineer-entrepreneur from MIT, where he graduated in engineering and management, where he serves on the board of trustees, and where he is to be president of the alumni association starting in July.
	www.geckil.com /~harvest/www6/Plenary/metcalfe.html (243 words)

	Ethernet History - Invention of Ethernet
		Robert Metcalfe needed something that was fast, could connect hundreds of computers and span the whole building, Something like a local area network, which Metcalfe developed in a rudimentary form in 1973 and dubbed Ethernet.
		He glances through the original 1970s papers by Metcalfe in which the Ethernet was parameterized as well as the unfortunate misunderstanding of Metcalfe's simple model of throughput, and the subsequent papers that tracked performance characteristics and corrected misunderstanding.
		Bob Metcalfe is married to author and shepherd, Robyn Shotwell.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/ethernet.htm (905 words)

	Robert Metcalfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metcalfe was working at Xerox PARC in 1973 when he invented Ethernet, a standard for connecting computers over short distances.
		Metcalfe was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996 for "exemplary and sustained leadership in the development, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet."
		Metcalfe received the National Medal of Technology from President Bush in a White House ceremony on March 14, 2003, "for leadership in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet", having been selected for the honor in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Metcalfe (360 words)

	Short Bio of Bob Metcalfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Metcalfe is a director of Avistar, Ember, IDC, IDG, Kelmscott, MIT, Narad, Pop!Tech, St. Mark’s School, and MIT’s Technology Review Magazine.
		While an entrepreneur-executive (1979-1990), Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company where at various times he was Chairman, CEO, division general manager (GM) of software, GM netstations, GM hardware, VP engineering, VP sales, and VP marketing.
		Metcalfe was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946.
	www.umcs.maine.edu /~markov/Metcalfe.htm (526 words)

	ITworld.com - Bob Metcalfe, going with the flow
		Ironically, Metcalfe, who airs his libertarian-conservative viewpoints both loudly and proudly, is one of the charter members of the revolutionary cadre who gathered in Palo Alto, Calif., in the early 1970s to overthrow the established computing order.
		Metcalfe first became acquainted with the Internet when it was a cozy little loop connecting relatively small numbers of government and academic research outposts.
		Metcalfe is clearly amused, challenged and frustrated by the painstaking task (which dwarfs by vast time factors the longest imaginable wait for the previous webpage after hitting the Back button).
	www.itworld.com /Net/1748/CIO111500_flow_content/pfindex.html (2839 words)

	DernWeb: Internet Predicts Overloading of Bob Metcalfe
		Robert Metcalfe, a suave, well- -- if perhaps too-casually- -- dressed techno bon vivant, and awardwinner, is best known for being the creator of Ethernet, and also for being one of the founders of 3Com, and recently variously publisher, editor-in-chief, and columnist at InfoWorld magazine.
		The Internet is flattered by the Metcalfe's ongoing interest in its health, but fears that this may be a case of the bioanarchistic pot calling the cyber-kettle fl.
		Bob Metcalfe was never designed to handle this great a load, nor to handle many of these types of functions.
	www.dern.com /metcfall.shtml (1223 words)

	Techworld.com - Mobility & Wireless News - ZigBee is the future/dead in the water (delete as appropriate) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Except, as has often been the case with Mr Metcalfe's visions, others take the complete opposite view and claim that ZigBee is all but dead in the water.
		Metcalfe, we should point out, is a partner in ZigBee developer Ember Corporation.
		Bob Healy, president of the ZigBee Alliance, recently addressed the issue in an email to members, in which he cautioned them to describe their current products as "ZigBee-ready", rather than "ZigBee-compliant".
	www.techworld.com /mobility/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2406 (1484 words)

	Legal Technology - A Betting Man: Ember's Bob Metcalfe
		Metcalfe is chairman and interim CEO of Ember Corp., a 5-year-old startup and Polaris portfolio company that makes chips based on ZigBee, a low-power, short-range wireless networking standard.
		Metcalfe helped lead that charge at 3Com, whose name is a shortened form of the words computer, communication and compatibility.
		The board ("wisely," as Metcalfe puts it) chose Eric Benhamou instead of Metcalfe, so he moved on to become a well-read columnist, a general technology pundit and, in 2001, a general partner at Polaris.
	www.law.com /jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1144067962903 (644 words)

	ItSeemstoMe: Bob Metcalfe, Acrimony & 3rd Parties
		And catcalls seemed to be an ugly response to Metcalfe’s lighter comments such as urging Democrats to vote on Nov. 9 (one-week late).
		I managed to talk with Metcalfe at the event reception that night and we both admitted we were equally disgusted with our flawed presidential selection system and each of us wished our selective parties could offer better candidates than we seem to get, and that candidates could discuss issues thoughtfully and constructively.
		Metcalfe said he was surprised at how completely he agreed with Joe Trippi who sees the time ripening for a real third party and the possible rapid disintegration of either or both the current Republican and Democratic parties.
	seems2shel.typepad.com /itseemstome/2004/10/bob_metcalfeacr.html (1023 words)

	Bob Metcalfe - S23Wiki
		Metcalfe is also the author of three books and the winner of numerous awards, among them the Grace Murray Hopper Award and the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
		Metcalfe's law states that the value of a network equals approximately the square of the number of users of the system (n
		First formulated by Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law explains many of the network effects of communication technologies and networks such as the Internet and World Wide Web.
	s23.org /wiki/Bob_Metcalfe (191 words)

	ACM1: Conference: Speakers: Bob Metcalfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Robert M. "Bob" Metcalfe was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946 and grew up on Long Island.
		Dr. Metcalfe wore several hats during his tenure at 3Com: CEO, President, Chairman of the Board, and Division General Manager, as well as head of sales and marketing, where he increased sales from zero to $1 million per month.
		Dr. Metcalfe spent a year as a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University in England in 1991 and began his journalism career upon his return.
	www.acm.org /acm1/conference/docs/metcalfe.html (443 words)

	GigaOM » Is Metcalfe’s Law Really Wrong? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		IEEE Spectrum magazine in a recent cover story by Bob Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko, and Benjamin Tilly, three respected academics argued that the Metcalfe’s Law - which states that the value of the network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system - is not only wrong, but also dangerous.
		Metcalfe’s Law is named after Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, and the term was coined by George Gilder, who rose to fame during the networking and telecom boom of the 1990s.
		Bob, now a general partner at Polaris Ventures responds to the IEEE Spectrum article, and defends the Law named after him in a guest post on VC Mike’s Blog.
	gigaom.com /2006/08/17/is-metcalfes-law-really-wrong (1156 words)

	Bob Metcalfe - Moviefone
		A co-worker of Bob Metcalfe puts the IEEE Spectrum critique in perspective.
		Father of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, in-demand author, pundit, and conference host, Bob Metcalfe is overcommitted and then some.
		Bob Metcalfe - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Bob Metcalfe Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/bob-metcalfe/120687/main (63 words)

	Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed: CNET Owes Bob Metcalfe an Apology
		Bob may or may not be a bad man, but it is George Gilder we have to blame for Metcalfe's Law, not Metcalfe.
		Gilder merely took what Metcalfe was saying about networks and postulated an over-the-top law that said a network's value increases with the square of the number of people connected.
		About the worst you could say for Metcalfe is that he never dismissed the silly notion; but I have read various interviews where he sighed and blamed Gilder for promoting the "law" so heavily under Metcalfe's name.
	paul.kedrosky.com /archives/001128.html (440 words)

	IT Conversations: Bob Metcalfe
		Bob tells how he landed a job at Xerox PARC research before graduating, and how Harvard did not accept his thesis at the last minute, but Xerox stood by their job offer.
		Working on research at Xerox PARC was interesting for Bob, but after a few years he realized it was time to start his own company to sell Ethernet -- thus 3Com was born.
		Halley challenges Bob to put together a "dream team" for a fantasy start-up company and asks him what famous people, living or dead would be on his team of five.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail200.html (311 words)

	3Com Press Release: 03/22/2005 3Com Congratulates Bob Metcalfe on Winning the National Medal of Technology
		Metcalfe was presented with the honor by President George W. Bush at a ceremony at the White House on March 14, 2005.
		"Bob's innovation and influence go far beyond the networking industry, and technology as a whole, so it is very fitting he should receive this honor," said Bruce Claflin, 3Com's president and CEO.
		Metcalfe founded 3Com in June of 1979, and was the company's first president and CEO.
	www.3com.com /corpinfo/en_US/pressbox/press_release.jsp?INFO_ID=212873 (585 words)

	WDTV - Weather Team - Bob Metcalfe
		Bob grew up on the southern shores of Lake Ontario, in Rochester, NY, where weather of all types is prominent (especially lake effect snow!).
		A little known fact: Bob was terrified of lightning when he was younger, but has since outgrown that fear, and now looks forward to summer thunderstorms.
		Bob graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego in May of 2006.
	www.wdtv.com /news/bios/weather/3549562.html (327 words)

	Engology.com, Engineer Bob Metcalfe, Research Engineer, Awards, Engineer Inventor, NASA, Computers, Internet, Founder ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dr. Robert M. ("Bob") Metcalfe is a general partner in our Boston office.
		Bob had three careers before becoming a venture capitalist.
		While an entrepreneur-executive (1979-1990), Bob founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company where at various times he was Chairman, CEO, division general manager, and vice president of engineering, marketing, and sales.
	www.engology.com /eng5metcalfe.htm (229 words)

	Dr. Robert ("Bob") M Metcalfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Robert M. ("Bob") Metcalfe is a general partner in the Polaris East Coast office.
		Bob graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 with bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and in management.
		In 2003, Bob won the Marconi International Fellowship and was inducted into the prestigious Bay Shore High School Hall of Fame.
	www.mintera.com /COMPANY/bobmetcalfe.htm (379 words)

	kwc blog: Talk: Bob Metcalfe
		Bob Metcalfe gave a short talk as part of the Ethernet celebration.
		bob metcalfe motto: "invention is flower, innovation is a weed"
		Metcalfe claims this idea as the most robust.
	kwc.org /blog/archives/2003/2003-05-22.talk_bob_metcalfe.html (426 words)

	The Revolutionaries: Bob Metcalfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This weekend and through Wednesday, Metcalfe is presiding over a symposium at the San Jose convention Center on the future of computing over the next 50 years.
		Born in 1946, Metcalfe is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technlology in 1969 with a degree in electrical engineering and a degree from the Sloan School of management.
		This weekend and through Wednesday, Metcalfe is presiding over a symposium at the San Jose Convention Center on the future of computing in the next 50 years.
	www.thetech.org /exhibits_events/online/revolution/metcalfe/i_a.html (1516 words)

	Interview with the Father of Ethernet" - Bob Metcalfe
		The task of devising a way to connect multiple computers to one another and to exchange messages over increasingly busy networks fell to Xerox PARC researcher Bob Metcalfe, who in a 1973 memo described the technology that would evolve into today's ubiquitous Ethernet protocol.
		Metcalfe's Ethernet wasn't the first of such network protocols--some preceded it, and many more followed.
		Metcalfe, a 57-year-old native of Brooklyn, N.Y., earned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology bachelor's degrees in both electrical engineering and management, and a master's degree in applied mathematics, before getting a doctorate in computer science from Harvard University.
	www.infocellar.com /networks/ethernet/metcalfe-interview.htm (2273 words)

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