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Bob is a director of Avistar, IDC, IDG, Massachusetts Software Council, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Metro Ethernet Forum, MIT, MITs Technology Review Magazine, Pop!Tech, and St. Marks School. He serves on the boards of Polaris-backed companies Ember, Mintera, Narad, Paratek, and SiCortex. He is chairman of Ember, Paratek, and SiCortex. Bob had three careers before becoming a venture capitalist:
Bob is grateful for his many honors. For example, in 1980, he received the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 1988, he received the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 1995, Bob received the Exploratorium Award for Public Understanding of Science and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he received the IEEE Medal of Honor. In 1997, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1999, he was elected to the International Engineering Consortium. In 2003, Bob won the Marconi Prize and was inducted into the prestigious Bay Shore High School Hall of Fame. In 2005, he received the National Medal of Technology from President Bush. Bob is especially proud of his four honorary doctorates, from DePaul University, University of Maine, Bay Path College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Bob was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946. In 1964, he graduated from Bay Shore (Long Island) High School. In 1969, he graduated from MIT with two bachelors degrees, in electrical engineering and in industrial management. He received a masters degree in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1970. His 1973 Harvard PhD dissertation was entitled Packet Communication. Bob was consulting associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford 1976-1983. He was a 1991-92 visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, England. In 2003, Bob was elected a Life Trustee of MIT. After 22 years in Silicon Valley, the Metcalves now live in Boston and Maine. Bibliography:
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Bob M. Metcalfe is a high-tech venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts. 