While a publisher-pundit (1990??“2000), Dr. Metcalfe was CEO of IDG??™s InfoWorld
Publishing Company (1992??“1995). For eight years, he wrote an Internet column read
weekly by over 500,000 information technologists. He spoke often; appeared on radio,
television, and the Web; and produced conferences including ACM97, ACM1, Agenda,
Pop!Tech, and Vortex.
Dr. Metcalfe??™s book credits include Packet Communication (Thomson), Internet
Collapses and Other InfoWorld Punditry (IDG Books), and Beyond Calculation: The
Next Fifty Years of Computing (co-edited for Springer Verlag).
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 with bachelor
degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Management. He received an MS in
Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1970. In 1973, he received his PhD
in Computer Science from Harvard, where his doctoral dissertation was titled, ???Packet
Communication???.
Among numerous awards, Dr. Metcalfe received the Grace Murray Hopper Award
from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1980. In 1988, he received
the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE).
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