Bob Metcalfe is an esteemed American engineer and entrepreneur known as the co-inventor of Ethernet, the widely used local area networking (LAN) technology. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he has made significant contributions to the field of computer networking. Metcalfe’s visionary work revolutionized data communication, laying the foundation for the development of modern internet infrastructure and earning him numerous accolades and awards throughout his career. He is the 2022 Turing Award winner and a Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL.

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