Robert M. Metcalfe, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery’s A.M. Turing Award, describes his work connecting MIT’s computer systems to the ARPANET, which formed the basis for his initially rejected Harvard Ph.D. thesis. This clip is taken from an interview conducted by Len Shustek for the Computer History Museum on November 29, 2006 and January 31, 2007 in Boston, MA which is distributed here by permission of the Computer History Museum. Video of the full interview is available as part of Hennessy’s ACM profile at https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/metcalfe_3968158.cfm.
i Hate Harvard How Robert Metcalfe Failed His Ph d Defense
i Hate Harvard How Robert Metcalfe Failed His Ph d Defense