Robert

Robert Metcalfe

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American electrical engineer

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Robert Metcalfe
Computer Science
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#3747
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Engineering
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#6059
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#1142
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Electrical Engineering
#2528
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#2650
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#321
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According to Wikipedia, Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Metcalfe has also made several predictions which failed to come to pass, including forecasting the demise of the internet during the 1990s.

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