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The Top 20 'Technology Elite' on Twitter

...Elite also includes a few significant figures from other areas, such as Bob Metcalfe, who invented Ethernet, and Dave Winer, who developed RSS. There are... Read more

11 March, 2011

Ethernet inventor welcomed into Hall of Fame

At the age of 61, Robert "Bob" Metcalfe has led a storied career, but he isn't resting on... Read more

8 May, 2007 by Marguerite Reardon

Ethernet creator talks up potential of ZigBee

Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted last week that the ZigBee wireless... Read more

11 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Microsoft millionaire opens wallet for ZigBee start-up

...amount of money raised by Ember to $53m. Ember also announced that Bob Metcalfe, who invented Ethernet some 30 years ago, has become company chairman... Read more

1 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Inventor celebrates 30 years of Ethernet

...to exchange messages over increasingly busy networks fell to Xerox PARC researcher Bob Metcalfe, who in a 1973 memo described the technology that would evolve... Read more

21 May, 2003 by Paul Festa

Bob 'Ethernet' Metcalfe looks to the future

Bob Metcalfe changed the IT world back in the early 1970s when he... Read more

11 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden
Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu

Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu

Technology insiders say their fond and not-so-fond farewells as Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at the software giant he founded Read more

26 June, 2008 by Holly Jackson and Ina Fried
Engineering a career at the PC's creation

Engineering a career at the PC's creation

...first personal computer to use a bitmapped display and mouse. Along with Bob Metcalfe, he also was the co-inventor of the Ethernet local area... Read more

5 July, 2007 by Charles Cooper

ZigBee pioneer raises another $12m

...Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and Polaris Venture Partners, where Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe is a general partner. This takes the total amount of money... Read more

14 June, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

New name needed for the geek elite

...term to describe inspirational, creative technologists such as Steve Wozniak, Gary Kildall, Bob Metcalfe and Tim Berners-Lee — and, by immodest implication, those of us... Read more

18 January, 2006 by Leader

ZigBee gets ready for certification

...and security systems to more effectively manage building emergencies. In late 2004, Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted that the ZigBee wireless standard would... Read more

6 January, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

ZigBee clears ratification hurdle

...Communication (an advanced RFID technology) could be a successful rival to ZigBee. Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, believes that ZigBee has a bright future. He... Read more

15 December, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

World's first ZigBee phone unveiled

...remotely controlled or act as a sensor. Experts, such as Ethernet creator Bob Metcalfe, believe ZigBee could be massive within a few years. At present... Read more

8 December, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

ZigBee gets middleware boost

...microprocessors shipped each year to be linked to a network. But as Bob Metcalfe -- inventor of Ethernet and now chairman of Ember -- said earlier this... Read more

19 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

We're fifty years into the future

...http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020427,2135049,00.htm ">Bob Metcalfe writes a memo at Xerox Parc describing Ethernet 17 July 1968... Read more

18 October, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

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