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Bay Shore High School, Harvard University, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Robert Metcalfe: American electrical engineer.
Born in Brooklyn (age 80).
10 awards including Computer History Museum Fellow.
Studied at Bay Shore High School.
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Computer History Museum Fellow
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EFF Award
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Grace Murray Hopper Award
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IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
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Biography
Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Metcalfe has also made several predictions which failed to come to pass, including forecasting the demise of the internet during the 1990s.
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Robert Metcalfe was born in Brooklyn.
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