Voices of Ethernet: Bob Metcalfe

Sept. 17, 2021
A video interview with the "Father of Ethernet," which is part of the Voices of Ethernet series.

This video is part of the video series The Voices of Ethernet.

On the brink of what he calls his “sixth career, whatever that’s going to turn out to be,” Robert M. Metcalfe shares some of the earliest stories from the technology’s history. Regarded as the “Father of Ethernet,” Metcalfe is credited with co-inventing Ethernet while working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973.

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