Ethernet Co-Inventor Robert Metcalfe Wins Prestigious Turing Award
Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet, has won the Turing Award for his invention made in the 1970s. The Ethernet was initially a single wire bus with a single transceiver per node, which was eventually replicated across Xerox until it became a corporate internet, and then an internet for the world. Metcalfe went on to found 3Com Corporation and worked as a venture capitalist. The Turing Award comes with a $1 million prize.
