- Published on March 29, 2023
- In AI Features
The Many Pursuits of 2023 Turing Award Winner Bob Metcalfe
Metcalfe co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network
- By Tasmia Ansari
In 1972, Bob Metcalfe, a 26-year-old engineer fresh out of graduate school, took upon himself the task to build a technology that could connect personal computers across an office and send information between them. The result was Ethernet, which became the industry standard in the world of computing.
Fast forward to 2023, Metcalfe is still making an impact in the tech world. He recently received the AM Turing Award (often referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’) for his contributions to the development of Ethernet. Metcalfe's hobbies and pursuits have evolved over the years, from entrepreneurship to tech journalism to his current focus on researching the application of supercomputers to complex problems in energy and other fields.
Less than a year ago, at the age of 7
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Tasmia Ansari
Tasmia is a tech journalist at AIM, looking to bring a fresh perspective to emerging technologies and trends in data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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