
Ethernet Co-Inventor Bob Metcalfe Receives Turing Award, Computing's Top Honor.
Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet, has been awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of computing." Metcalfe and the late David Boggs developed Ethernet at Xerox PARC, which revolutionized networking. Metcalfe later founded 3com, a networking equipment company that brought Ethernet to the mainstream. Despite its notoriety as a cable technology, Metcalfe originally envisioned Ethernet to be more like Wi-Fi.




