2008 CHM Fellow Awards Ceremony

[Recorded October 21, 2008]
The annual Computer History Museum Fellow Awards program publicly recognizes individuals of outstanding merit who have significantly contributed to the development of computing broadly-defined. Chosen on the basis of accomplishment, Fellows are nominated by the Museum's community and selected by a panel composed of Museum staff, historians, industry peers, and other Computer History Museum Fellows. Each year, a who's who of the technology world assembles at the museum for a banquet and ceremony to honor these industry leaders who have forever changed the world with their accomplishments.

The 2008 Fellow Awards honorees are:
- 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.

This year's award ceremony was hosted by Robert Krulwich, correspondent for NPR's Science Desk and a regular correspondent for the PBS investigative series Frontline.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Computer
• History
• Museum
• Fellow
• Awards
• ENIAC
• Ethernet
• Linux
• Torvalds
• Metcalf
• Bartik
• Networking

[younghifi]

I like the whole new CHS logo animation, but damn... that award music sucked. So cheesy and cheap that they'd have to sell it as Cheapo-cheese. Maybe it's not all that important, but look into this on the next ceremony OK? Computer history should be "grand" and not having the aura of sweet elevator music or cheap talk-show tunes.

[shaurz]

Why was that guy so keen to take the trophy thing from Jean?