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Bob Metcalf & Hermann Hauser

Friday, 11 February 2005
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

CMI DLS: Bob Metcalfe

The next CMI Distinguished Lecture Series spotlights Hermann Hauser, technical entrepreneur, and Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet, as they discuss growing a start-up business into a larger company.

Dr Robert (‘Bob’) Metcalfe began his career as an engineer-scientist, and was working as a researcher for Xerox when he invented Ethernet, the LAN standard on which he shares four patents.

In 2003, 184 million new Ethernet connections shipped for $12.5 billion.

Bob subsequently founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company.

As well as serving on the board of several companies, Bob is now a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners, and specializes in Boston-based IT start-ups.

Hermann was an influential figure in the UK personal computer industry during the 80s.

He also co-founded the venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners where he oversees a range of early- and later-stage developing technology companies.

Hermann Hauser is speaking from a Lecture Theatre at the Judge Institute of Management Studies in Cambridge UK and Bob Metcalfe from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

They will meet by live video-link for the talk, and for Q&A.

Live Webcast Information
The webcast of this event begins at 11.30am on Friday, February 11th via CMI’s home page: http://www.cambridge-mit.org.

Sponsor
MIT Entrepreneurship Center, cmi-events
 
Open to the public

Location:
E51-325, M.I.T. and online at http://www.cambridge-mit.org

Cost: free

URL: http://www.cambridge-mit.org