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How did he not get this earlier?

• jacquesm 3y ago
  Exactly. He really should have.
• tobylane 3y ago
  There’s a lot of inventions to award people for. Some of the other recipients look overdue by the time it came to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award
  • OJFord 3y ago
    It coming to Metcalfe for Ethernet 7 years after to Berners-Lee for the WWW is amusing though.
    • jacquesm 3y ago
      Indeed, the one would not have existed without the other.
    • js8 3y ago
      Perhaps they are giving it by OSI layers.
      • jacquesm 3y ago
        That's very funny :)
• williamDafoe 3y ago
  ACM awards are dominated by the theory community. A lot of theoreticians with NO impact on the world have awards. Metcalfe was one of a dozen people who co-invented Ethernet and does not fit the historians "Great man" theory where history is decided by a few "Great Men" who went a different direction at a critical moment ... Ethernet's success is only 25% due to him. For example, in 1979 at UIUC a grad student built 230kbps S-100 cards using rs232 chips and I wrote the Z-80 csma/cd drivers (as a high school student) so it was not rocket science. So there was reluctance to give him an award for something he didn't pioneer all alone.