The 2008 Fellow Awards honorees:

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.

http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowaward...low_awards.html