Bob Metcalfe is the Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught an undergraduate course on entrepreneurship called Longhorn Startup for the past two years along with Joshua Baer and Entrepreneur in Residence Ben Dyer. Metcalfe was also inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame […]
Bob Metcalfe at Startup Grind San Antonio
September 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Startup Grind San Antonio features an interview with Bob Metcalfe Tuesday at Geekdom in downtown San Antonio. Metcalfe has had five careers so far and currently serves as professor of innovation at the University of Texas at Austin. The Internet Society also inducted Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, and Robert Taylor, an alumnus of the […]
Happy 39th Birthday Ethernet
May 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Congratulations! Thanks! to Dave Boggs, Butler Lampson, Chuck Thacker on #Ethernet ‘s 39th birthday, today. — Bob Metcalfe (@BobMetcalfe) May 22, 2012 In 1973, there were no personal computers, says Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet. But 39 years ago today, Metcalfe and David Boggs, Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson at Xerox set out to build […]
Ethernet inventor wants to network startups to solve the world’s energy crisis
September 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A network of entrepreneurs will solve the energy crisis. That’s the belief of Bob Metcalfe, professor of innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, founder of 3Com and co-inventor of Ethernet, a networking standard which links computers. “The biggest lesson of the Internet that applies to energy is it was not built by incumbents […]
