A much better use for the term 'ether' than that one cryptocurrency, if you ask me.
Robert Metcalfe, one of the principal engineers behind ethernet, has finally been handed a Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery , some five decades after his invention came to be. Fifty years seems like a long time, though the man appears to have been so busy accepting awards he wouldn't have had time to show up for a Turing Award., it goes through the many recognitions Metcalfe has seen for his work.
He originally pitched his PhD thesis to Harvard around improving networking, but it was dismissed as being not theoretical enough. So fell by the wayside his plan to connect the university's computers up to the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network , the first operational packet switching network, and where Internet Protocol originated. And while Harvard turned its nose up, MIT welcomed the innovation, recruiting him into Project Mac to carry out his connective dreams.
It was as he designed and built an Arpanet interface for a new PARC computer that he and co-inventor David Boggs brought the ethernet to life. Its success was down to the two ironing out the current telephone network's data log jam issues, which had meant the networks weren't being used to their full potential. Inspired by, and revised from the University of Hawaii's attempts to connect its many islands through the ALOHAnet, ethernet made packet data transfer a breeze.
It was enough for Metcalfe to convince Harvard to award him an MSc, and with his fervent application and continued advocacy over the years, ethernet went on to become standardised across the globe. What's interesting is how ethernet was originally dubbed the"Ether Network." When you say it back makes all this sound very ghost-in-the-machine, but according to the
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