Robert Melancton "Bob" Metcalfe 300 Bowie Street #4103, Austin, TX 78703 USA Phone: +1-857-891-1252, E-Mail: [email protected]

Summary

MIT engineer, Harvard mathematician, Internet pioneer, Xerox scientist, inventor, Stanford professor, founder, Cambridge fellow, InfoWorld pundit, National Technology Medalist, now Polaris Venture Partner and Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise in The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering.

Education

Harvard University Ph.D. in Computer Science [Applied Mathematics] 1973 Dissertation: Packet Communication (Book in 1996, see Amazon.com)

Harvard University M.S. in Applied Mathematics 1970 Finite Mathematics, Decision and Control, Information Systems

Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B. in Electrical Engineering 1969 Systems Programming, Digital Electronics, Artificial Intelligence Dissertation: A Neuron Model and Some of Its Information Processing Capabilities

Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B. in Industrial Management [Sloan] 1969 Dynamic Modeling, Organizational Development, Entrepreneurship

Bay Shore High School, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York Salutatorian 1964

Experience

• Polaris Venture Partners, General Partner, diversified venture capital. 2001-Present • International Data Group, Director, VP Technology, Pundit 1996-2000 • IDG InfoWorld Publishing Company, CEO/Publisher/Columnist 1992-1995 • Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory, Visiting Fellow 1991-1992 • 3Com Corporation [HP in 2010], Founder, Chairman, CEO, VP, GM 1979-1990 • , Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering: 1975-1983 Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming, Introduction to Distributed Computing, Distributed Computing and Computer Communication, broadcast over Stanford Instructional Television Network • Xerox Systems Development, Manager of System Architecture 1976-1979 • Citibank Transaction Technology, Director of Technical Planning 1975-1976 • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Computer Scientist 1972-1975 • MIT Project MAC (today CSAIL), Member of Research Staff 1970-1972 Page 2

• Others (Raytheon, Keydata, LNS, MSC, DCD, PDS), Computer Programmer 1965-1970

Publications/Presentations (Selected)

• Happy 65th Birthday to the Doriot Ecology, Texas Enterprise April 4, 2011 • Enernet: Internet Lessons for Solving Energy, 42-Stop Speaking Tour 2008-2009 • Conferences: Agenda, Vortex, ACM1, ACM97, Pop!Tech - Producer 1995-2007 • Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, edited with 1997 Peter Denning, Conference and Book, Executive Producer of ACM97 • Internet Collapses and Other InfoWorld Punditry, IDG Books 2000 • From the Ether, InfoWorld, Internet Column, 629,000+ weekly readers 1992-2000 • How Ethernet Was Invented, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 1994 • Local Networks of Personal Computers, invited paper, Ninth World 1983 Computer Congress, Paris • Pup: An Internetworking Architecture, with others, IEEE Transactions 1980 on Communications • Reverse Path Forwarding of Broadcast Packets, with Yogen Dalal, 1978 Communications of the ACM • Fibernet: Multimode Optical Fibers for Local Computer Networks, with 1978 Eric Rawson, IEEE Transactions on Communications • Ethernet: Distributed for Local Computer Networks, 1976 with David Boggs, Communications of the ACM, selected for 25th Anniversary Issue, Twenty-one Milestones in Computer Science -- Selected Papers 1958-1982 • Steady-State Analysis of a Slotted and Controlled Aloha System with 1973 Blocking, Sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences • Scenarios for Using the Arpanet, booklet edited for the International 1972 Conference on Computer Communication (ICCC) • Strategies for Interprocess Communication in a Distributed Computing 1972 System, Symposium on Computer Communications and Teletraffic, Polytechnic Press • Strategies for Operating Systems in Computer Networks, National 1972 Conference of the ACM • Function-Oriented Protocols for the Arpa , with 1972 others, AFIPS Conference Proceedings • The Data Reconfiguration Service -- An Experiment in Process-Process 1971 Communication, with others, Second Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communication Systems, Stanford Page 3

• Project ASC: Research and Development in the Application of Small 1968 Computers, DECUS Symposium at Berkeley

Patents

• Data Communication System and Phase Decoder, with David Boggs, #4,282,512 1981 • An Active T-Coupler for Fiber Optic Local Networks, with Eric Rawson, #4,233,589 1980 • Communications Network Repeater, with David Boggs, #4,099,024 1978 • Multipoint Data Communication System with Collision Detection (Ethernet), with Boggs, 1977 Lampson, Thacker, #4,063,220

Awards

• Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows 2008 • National Inventors Hall of Fame 2007 • National Medal of Technology 2005 • International Engineering Consortium 1999 • National Academy of Engineering 1997 • IEEE Medal of Honor 1996 • Exploratorium Award for Public Understanding of Science 1995 • American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1995 • IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1988 • ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award 1980 • Honorary Doctorates from Bay Path College, DePaul University, University of Maine, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Affiliations/Memberships

• Director of Polaris-backed start-ups 1366 Technologies, Ember, Infinite Power Solutions, SiOnyx, and Sun Catalytix. • Director of Avistar Communications, a public company • Board of Counselors, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation • MIT Life Trustee serving the MIT Energy Initiative, Visiting Committees for Chemistry (Chairman), EECS, and Mathematics, and on the Advisory Councils of the MIT Dean of Engineering and the MIT Dean of Science. • National Academy of Engineering, Finance and Budget Committee Page 4