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Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.

Pattern Breakers

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The Arpinet Internet, a Network for Connecting Computers

Bob Greene was a graduate student at Harvard, working on the arpinet. He says he wanted to build an interface between two computers that would allow them to share information and resources. The project failed when Harvard refused his request for help with it. But later they hired him as part of their computer science research team.

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