From Networks to the Turing Award: How Robert Metcalfe Changed the Internet and the World
The 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award was awarded to Robert “Bob” Metcalfe. Often regarded as the highest prize in computing, the Turing Award is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” Metcalfe was awarded the prize for the “invention, standardization, and commercialization” of one of the earliest, most impactful, and most extensively utilized networking technologies – Ethernet. Read more
