Ethernet Creator Makes the Inventors Hall of Fame 45
An anonymous reader wrote in with a Network World story that opens, "Ethernet is right up there with magnetic resonance imaging, the LP record, air bags, and soft contact lenses. So says the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which included Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the ubiquitous LAN technology, in its latest round of inductees."
Ah, Xerox PARC ... (Score:5, Insightful)
The technology center that gave birth to so many of the corner stones of modern computing ... the mouse GUI, the laser printer (yeah, xerox ...), ethernet and if I may say so - object oriented programming.
I'm not sure what it proves, but it does prove that when you're not thinking about immediate profit, there's so much you can do - but if you don't somebody'll pull the funding on you (and kick themselves years later).
What were they working in the nineties ? IPV6 ?
Some of Bob Metcalfe's latest work (Score:2, Insightful)
enjoy...
Re:"I invented the internet" (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Kinda spoilt... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Kinda spoilt... (Score:3, Insightful)
Everyone's allowed to have a public opinion about anything (cf Slashdot). Point your finger instead at the people who give Metcalfe a platform to express said political opinions, based solely on his technological background.