2008 Fellow Award

2008 Fellow Awards Nominees
The 2008 Fellow Awards honorees were:
  • Jean Bartik was one of the first programmers of the groundbreaking ENIAC computing system in 1945. She later assisted in converting the ENIAC system into one of the first stored-program computers.
  • Bob Metcalfe led the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet.
  • Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel and oversaw open source development of the widely used Linux operating system.
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