People of ACM: Robert Metcalfe (1/16/2024)

Robert Melancton Metcalfe is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin and a Research Affiliate in Computational Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
He is the recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet. In their classic 1976 Communications of the ACM article, “Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks.” Metcalfe and David Boggs described the design of Ethernet. Metcalfe then went on to guide the development of Ethernet over the next several decades. Today, Ethernet is the main conduit of network communications around the world.
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Great! Glad to still have such a genius with us. Wishing him more health , long life and wisdom.