Ethernet Inventor Sees No Limits To The Technology

by Paul Travis InformationWeek, 16 Mar 2005 When Bob Metcalf was working at Xerox Corp. in 1970, he was given the task of developing a way to network computers using a standard interface. He invented what's now known as Ethernet, the technology employed by just about every data network in use today. Metcalf, awarded the National Medal of Technology on Monday, says Ethernet will become even faster and more widely used. Read the article