| Name |
Biography |
| Robert Metcalfe |
| Date of birth: |
1946
Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Contributions: |
- Development of Ethernet
while at Xerox PARC..
- Founded 3COM in 1979.
- Coined Metcalfe's
Law.
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| Company: |
3COM |
| Quotes: |
- "Almost all of the many predictions now being
made about 1996 hinge on the Internet's continuing
exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will
soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996
catastrophically collapse."
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| Related people: |
Alan Kay, Douglas
Engelbart |
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| Robert Noyce |
| Formal name: |
Robert Norton Noyce |
| Date of birth: |
December 12, 1927
Burlington, Iowa, USA |
| Date of death: |
June 3, 1990
Austin, Texas, USA |
| Contributions: |
- Helped start Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.
- Invented the Integrated chip while at Fairchild
Semiconductor 1959.
- Co-founded Intel
with Gordon Moore in 1968.
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| Company: |
Intel |
| Other: |
- Awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1987.
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| Related people: |
Eugene
Kleiner, Jack Kilby,
Gordon Moore, Jerry
Sanders, Robert Noyce |
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