Future.Tech – Industry Academia Seminar Series inaugural talk by Robert Metcalfe ( 7 Feb 2024)

IIITH is pleased to announce the launch of its Future.Tech – Industry Academia seminar series that will deliberate on emerging technology and research trends in the context of industry. These seminars will help industry understand the latest tech trends, as well as foster conversations on industry-academia collaborations

The inaugural talk is by Robert Metcalfe on CONNECTIVITY is a thing, THE thing

Metcalfe is a MIT graduate, researcher, inventor and entrepreneur. He is responsible for inventing the Ethernet at Xerox PARC. He later co-founded 3COM networks, the largest networking company for few decades. Also formulated Metcalfe’s law (the value of a telecom network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2)

 Date: 7 February

Time: 3:30pm

Venue: Himalaya 105, IIITH campus