Bob Metcalfe - Pioneer Internet / Entrepreneur

[Date: March 10, 2009] Bob Metcalfe led to the invention, standardization and commercialization of the system to local area Ethernet network personal computer (PC). Metcalfe was April 7, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York born. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1969 with a degree in electrical engineering, industrial engineering and management. At the University of Harvard in 1970, he earned a master's degree in applied mathematics. His 1973 Harvard Ph.D. Thesis,The communications packages, comes from research on the ARPANET Project MAC at MIT and Alohanet at the University of Hawaii. In 1972, Metcalfe left Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He worked at the Computer Science Laboratory, under the direction of Jerry Elkind, Bob Taylor, Butler Lampson and Chuck Thacker, the development was one of the first personal computer. Metcalfe, in collaboration with David Boggs invented and developed the Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) system and its protocol packets that have increasedand developed to become today's Internet Services. Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation in 1979 to promote "communication compatibility computer. 3Com originally developed, PC-LAN products based on emerging UNIX, TCP / IP and Ethernet standards, went public in 1984, and grew up in a society of networks of billions of dollars. In addition, Metcalfe served as a "matchmaker" who convinced DEC, Intel and Xerox (DIX) work together to promote Ethernet as an open standard. In September 1980, published DIXits ...