In June 1972, Bob Metcalfe, a 26-year-old engineer fresh out of graduate school, joined a new research lab in Palo Alto, California, as it set out to build something that few people could even imagine ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. has selected computer networking technology from CA Inc. for the Navy’s Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System. CA will provide its Spectrum Network Fault Manager as part of the ...

Decentralized networks distribute processing across many devices, enhancing security and resilience. Blockchain technology exemplifies fully decentralized networks without central servers, running on ...

Thanks to the invention he helped create in the 1970s, people can send email over an office network or visit a website through a coffee shop hot spot. By Cade Metz David Boggs, an electrical engineer ...

In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has covered the last five winners of ...