Bob Metcalfe
Bob Metcalfe
Robert Melancton "Bob" Metcalfeis an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law. As of January 2006, he is a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners. Starting in January 2011, he holds the position of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of Innovation at The University of Texas at Austin...
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It's not going to be a big hit in the cities, and it's not going to replace all Internet access -- you'd have to blacken the sky with satellites, ... But out in the country, or in underdeveloped nations, it does have an interesting economic effect.
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A huge swing factor is whether complacent telecommunications monopolies are left standing, ... If so, progress will be very slow, as in the past.
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Netscape is one of those companies that came and went and will return with little help from the press. The Internet allowed them to go over our heads directly to customers.
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What's done at the hardware level is really minuscule compared to what could be done,
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When we said we would sign up multiple microcontroller partners, it raised an important issue, since we're a tiny company. We had the specific discussion of eliminating OEM sales in favor of partnering with chip suppliers, but the coprocessor market appeared to have a long enough life to justify our offering products like the EM260 independently.