Even if you are not directly connecting an Ethernet connection to the wall to access the internet, you are still using that technology somewhere down the line. Bob Metcalfe and the late David Boggs are to be credited for that. Together, the two created Ethernet at Xerox’s renowned Palo Alto Research Institute (better known as Xerox PARC), paving the way for a revolution in networking. The Association for computers Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” was given to Metcalfe yesterday.
