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	Bob Metcalfe
		Metcalfe was born in 1946, in Brooklyn, NY.
		Metcalfe had done a good job writing his informative booklet and was chosen to take ten AT&T officials on a virtual tour of the network.
		Metcalfe was excited about the ARAPNET and made it the topic of his doctoral dissertation.
	www.ibiblio.org /pioneers/metcalfe.html (705 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Robert M. "Bob" Metcalfe, developer of Ethernet and other Internet-related technologies, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946.
		Metcalfe did attend MIT eventually, and he graduated in 1969 with a bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and business management.
		Metcalfe is still very active on the technology scene, both through his writing and his mentoring of others involved in computer and computer-related technology.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/metcalfe.html (514 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.
		And the authors re-argue the case and say that Metcalfe's Law overstates the value of a network and that in fact, in their case, the value only grows as n-log-n, instead of n squared.
	onpodsessions.com /2006/08/is_metcalfes_law_wrong.html (3350 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)

	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)

	Robert M. Metcalfe Biography \| World of Computer Science
		Robert Metcalfe is best known for his development of Ethernet and LAN technology as well as for founding the 3Com company.
		Robert Metcalfe was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946, although he grew up on Long Island.
		In 1975 Metcalfe was made a consulting associate professor of electronic engineering at Stanford University, a position he kept along with his other duties until 1983 when he relinquished it.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-m-metcalfe-wcs (945 words)

	Whiting-Turner Lecture Series, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
		Robert M. Metcalfe is a high-tech venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts.
		Metcalfe is especially proud of his four honorary doctorates, from DePaul University, University of Maine, Bay Path College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
		Metcalfe was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946.
	www.engr.umd.edu /whitingturner/archive/metcalfe.html (443 words)

	Subject Top Page: Metcalfe's Law
		Robert Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation and designed the Ethernet protocol for computer networks.
		Metcalfe's Law states that the usefulness, or utility, of a network equals the square of the number of users.
		It was not until 1931 that telephone companies put a dial on the instrument, finally cutting the tremendous cost of employing switchboard operators and extending the reach of the system.
	www.arb.ca.gov /oss/presentations/lugod/metcalfeslaw.htm (368 words)

	School of Information Science - Hall of Fame
		Robert Metcalfe is a high-tech venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts.
		Metcalfe was consulting associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford 1976-1983.
		In 2003, Metcalfe won the Marconi International Fellowship and was inducted into the prestigious Bay Shore High School Hall of Fame.
	www.sis.pitt.edu /~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/metcalfe.html (447 words)

	Remarks of Mr. Robert Metcalfe
		Metcalfe is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard in 1973.
		METCALFE: I agree entirely with the premise of your question, which is that free markets are going to generally work things out, and government's role should be minimal.
		METCALFE: This is a hard question, and I do not have the answers, but I know that the alternative lies in this direction rather than in apparent anarchy, which is causing the Internet to decline.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/comphist/montic/metcalfe.htm (9269 words)

	Ethernet Inventor Sees No Limits To The Technology - News by InformationWeek
		When Bob Metcalfe was working at Xerox Corp. in 1970, he was given the task of developing a way to network computers using a standard interface.
		Metcalfe notes that as more telecom companies offer Ethernet services, Ethernet is becoming a carrier standard and not just a LAN standard.
		The widespread use of Ethernet is a key reason Metcalfe was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Bush at a White House ceremony Monday.
	informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159900930 (642 words)

	Robert Metcalfe - Moviefone
		In the July 2006 IEEE Spectrum, Bob Briscoe, Odlyzko and Tilly state more succinctly: "Metcalfe's Law is Wrong".
		Xerox and Robert Metcalfe introduced the world to network computing - the ethernet.
		Robert Metcalfe - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Robert Metcalfe Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/robert-metcalfe/48703/main (64 words)

	ITworld.com - Interview: Robert Metcalfe, recipient, National Medal of Technology
		Metcalfe: Well, when I graduated from MIT and went up the river to Harvard to graduate school, I was a new grad student.
		Metcalfe: Well remember, I had worked for a couple of years already, three or four years on the ARPANET, which was connecting mainframe computers at a distance, across the country.
		Metcalfe: Well, the granddaddy of the Internet, or perhaps the great granddaddy, and I don't want to get into a fight about this, was J. Licklighter at MIT, who was at ARPA in the early days.
	www.itworld.com /Net/1748/transcript_bobmetcalfe050311/pfindex.html (3080 words)

	Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert M. ("Bob") Metcalfe joined Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts in January of 2001.
		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, and vice president of engineering, marketing, and sales.
		In 1995, Metcalfe was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	www.marconifoundation.org /pages/fellows/Fellows_details/metcalf.htm (340 words)

	Robert (Bob) Metcalfe
		The son of Thomas and Elizabeth Metcalfe, Bob was born at Rishton in 1896.
		Bob Metcalfe is third from left on the front row.
		Corporal Bob Metcalfe was discharged from the 25th King's (Liverpool Regiment) on 20th February 1919.
	www.pals.org.uk /metcalfe.htm (1275 words)

	White House recognizes Ethernet inventor Metcalfe - MIT News Office
		Ethernet inventor Robert M. Metcalfe, an MIT alumnus, accepted the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor for technical innovation, at a White House ceremony on March 14.
		President George W. Bush honored Metcalfe for his leadership in the invention, standardization and commercialization of Ethernet.
		President George W. Bush presents alumnus Robert Metcalfe with the National Medal of Technology on March 14.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2005/metcalfe-0316.html (438 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.
		Robert Metcalfe shares four patents for Ethernet, the local-area networking technology.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/ethernet.htm (918 words)

	Webopedia: Who's Who in Internet and Computer Technology
		Metcalfe is the co-inventor of Ethernet, which he developed with David Boggs while working as a researcher at Xerox PARC.
		In 1976, Metcalfe moved to the Xerox Systems Development Division and managed the microprocessor and communication developments that would eventually lead to the Xerox Star workstation.
		Metcalfe also taught at Stanford University for eight years and later completed a fellowship at the University of Cambridge, England.
	www.webopedia.com /quick_ref/bios/m.asp (335 words)

	What is Metcalfe’s Law? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		A theory argued by Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, which states that the power of a network increases by the square of the number of nodes connected to it.
		Metcalfe observed that new technologies are valuable only when large numbers of people use them -- consider how less valuable the telephone would be if only two people in the world used them.
		Remarks of Dr. Robert Metcalfe at the University of Virginia, May 30, 1996.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/M/Metcalfes_Law.html (130 words)

	Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Metcalfe, R.M. Strategies for interprocess communication in a distributed computing system.
		Metcalfe, R.M. Steady-state analysis of a slotted and con trolled aloha system with blocking.
		Metcalfe, R.M. Distributed algorithms for a broadcast queue.
	www.acm.org /classics/apr96 (6743 words)

	Zero Influence Wiki: Robert Metcalfe
		According to Metcalfe, "The hot topic in those days was a brand new thing called the ARPAnet," he explains.
		While still at Harvard, writing his PhD thesis on packet networking, Metcalfe began to build some hardware and a high-speed network interface that, he says, led to what he's best known for—inventing the Ethernet.
		Internet Pioneer Robert Metcalfe's Long Anticipated Transformation of the Net to Video is Here and the Implications Are Profound…It's Always been about the "Packets"
	zeroinfluence.wikidot.com /article:robert-metcalfe (673 words)

	RPI Campus.News March 22, 2004: Internet Pioneer Robert Metcalfe To Speak at Commencement 2004 Honorary degree ...
		Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation (1979), the billion-dollar networking company in which he served as chairman, CEO, division general manager, and vice president of engineering, marketing, and sales.
		A noted columnist and commentator, he created Metcalfe's Law, which states that the value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users.
		In 1970 Donald Keck was a member of the Corning glass research team that developed the optical fiber that led to the telecommunications revolution.
	www.rpi.edu /web/Campus.News/features/032204-honorary.html (405 words)

	Metcalfe's Law in Reverse: Reader Comments (Alertbox Sidebar)
		However, on the current issue involving Metcalfe's law, I was a little lost.
		Metcalfe's law says something about the total worth of a network; you assume that it says something about the value of providing content on a network.
		The latest alertbox on Metcalfe's law was on the mark about the ways that many content sites are trying to undermine universal connectivity.
	www.useit.com /alertbox/990725_comments.html (1918 words)

	AutomatedBuildings.com Interview - Robert M. Metcalfe, Chairman, Ember Corp.
		AutomatedBuildings.com Interview - Robert M. Metcalfe, Chairman, Ember Corp.
		Bob Metcalfe is chairman and interim CEO for Ember Corporation as well as a high-tech venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts.
		Metcalfe graduated from MIT, got his PhD from Harvard, taught at Stanford and Cambridge, and was elected in 1997 to the National Academy of Engineering.
	www.automatedbuildings.com /news/feb06/interviews/metcalfe.htm (857 words)

	Robert M. Metcalfe - From Inventing the Enterprise - CIO Magazine Dec. 15 1999/Jan. 1 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Internally, the research center had just developed what's regarded as the world's first laser printer, a one-page-per-second, 500-dot-per-inch unit that was capable of handling everything Xerox workers threw its way, and then some.
		Something like a local area network, which Metcalfe developed in a rudimentary form in 1973 and dubbed Ethernet.
		Metcalfe went on to cofound 3Com Corp. (computers, communications, compatibility), which promulgated the idea of using standards like Ethernet and TCP/IP to foster connectivity.
	www.cio.com /archive/010100/metcalfe.html (1235 words)

	Metcalfe's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In March 2005, Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly published a preliminary paper which concluded Metcalfe's law significantly overestimates the value of adding connections.
		In contrast, Reed's law asserts that Metcalfe's law understates the value of adding connections.
		Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networking by Bob Metcalfe
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metcalfe's_law (568 words)

	Fundamentals of information science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert Metcalf's law states that the "value" or "power" of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of nodes on the network.
		Weinberg pointed out that Metcalf's Law was formulated in an era of one-to-one communications (e.g., telephone network), but in this day of virtual communities and group communications, there are exponentially more ways in which to create network connections.
		If you look at just one node, there are 6 possible combinations of "groups" for this node (not counting the "solo" group of just the node, itself).
	www-ec.njit.edu /~robertso/infosci/metcalf.html (374 words)

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