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Robert Metcalfe wins 2023 Turing Award for co-inventing and commercializing Ethernet technology
The Turing Award is widely regarded as the most prestigious in computer science, sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” It is named after the famous computer scientist Alan Turing. The Association for Computing Machinery awards it annually to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field…
Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe wins the Turing Award, the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’
Even if you’re not plugging an Ethernet cable into the wall, somewhere along the chain you’re still relying on that technology to get online. You’ve got Bob Metcalfe and the late David Boggs to thank for that. Together at Xerox’s renowned Palo Alto Research Institute (better known as Xerox PARC), the pair developed Ethernet and set the stage for a networking revolution. Yesterday, Metcalfe received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, which is often pegged the “Nobel Prize of computing.”
Thanks to funding from Google, that prize is now worth $1 million, and it’s yet another highlight for Metcalfe’s storied career. After leaving Xerox PARC, he founded 3com, a networking equipment company that brought Ethernet to the mainstream. “It is dangerous to accept an award for developing Ethernet, which turns 50 on May 22, 2023,” Metcalfe told the University of Texas, where he now serves as a professor emeritus. “Over Ethernet’s 50 years, hundreds of people have earned some claim of inventorship. Join me in saying to these folks, ‘Thank you.’”
Despite its notoriety as a cable technology, Metcalfe told the New York Times that he originally envisioned it to be more like the Wi-Fi we know today. “We wanted to make it wireless,” he said. “But we couldn’t have zero wires. It would have been too slow and too expensive.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/bob-metcalfe-wins-turing-award-ethernet-195342698.html?src=rss
Faulty Intel Ethernet controllers are dropping connections on some Raptor Lake motherboards
According to research conducted by the team at TechPowerUp, the issue is attributed to the I226-V controller when running in its default 2.5 GbE state. The short duration connectivity drops occur at random and may not be noticeable by some users depending on their specific activity level. It does, however,…
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Security researchers foil NASA docking procedure with novel attack on Ethernet network
Time-triggered Ethernet is a system that allows mission-critical devices, like flight controllers, to run on the same networking hardware as non-essential systems, like passenger WiFi. The TTE protocol came about because of the need for cost-effective and efficient ways to share network resources rather than having two entirely separate systems.
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Looking to extend your existing Ethernet cable or want to bypass the maximum length limit without sacrificing the performance? You will be happy to know that there are several ways to make an Ethernet cable longer.