Bob Metcalfe
CSAIL Research Affiliate In Computational Engineering
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBob Metcalfe is an Internet pioneer, inventor of Ethernet, and Turing Award laureate who blends deep technical inventiveness with serial entrepreneurship and academic leadership. He founded 3Com and helped commercialize networking technologies that scaled to billions of annual ports, later translating that industry experience into roles as professor, VC partner, publisher, and research affiliate at MIT CSAIL and the Wolfram Institute. His career uniquely spans hands-on systems invention at PARC and MIT, corporate founding and IPO execution, and influential public commentary as InfoWorld’s columnist. An uncommon thread in his work is pairing rigorous applied mathematics and computational engineering training with a penchant for bold, contrarian predictions—some famously wrong, but all part of shaping technology debate. Based in Austin, he remains active in research, education, and computational engineering while holding memberships in multiple national academies and numerous historic honors.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Wolfram Summer School Certificate, Computational Science and Technology, Featured Contributor Badge, Staff Choice, Wolfram Summer School Certificate, Computational Science and Technology, Featured Contributor Badge, Staff Choice at Wolfram Research, Champaign, IllinoisHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bay Shore High SchoolMaster of Science, Applied Mathematics, Decision and Control, Master of Science, Applied Mathematics, Decision and Control at Harvard Business SchoolBachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Dynamic Modeling, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Development, Bachelor's degree, Dynamic Modeling, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Development at MIT Sloan School of ManagementPhD, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, PhD, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BobMetcalfe/Monty1
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 5 months
BobMetcalfe/GEO
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Toy Models of Geothermal Wells
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 1 PR in 20 days
toytoy-modelsgeothermalwells
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