Bob Metcalfe: Ethernet at Forty

Bob Metcalfe describes how the Ethernet local area network was created 40 years ago at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/rLhoFp2YIgU is an audio recording of Charles Severance's Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Bob Metcalfe about how the Ethernet local area network was created 40 years ago at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/m_agCPNGOzU is a video interview with Bob Metcalfe about the creation of the first Ethernet local area network 40 years ago at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.