Ethernet Co-Inventor Bob Metcalfe Wins $1 Million Turing Award

Bob Metcalfe, an MIT research affiliate and founder of 3Com Corp., has won the 2022 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for his invention of Ethernet, one of the earliest and most extensively utilized networking technologies. The award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google. Ethernet is the main conduit of wired network communications worldwide, handling data rates from 10 megabits per second to 400 gigabits per second, with 800 Gbps and 1.6 terabits per second technologies emerging.