ArsDigita Prize

The ArsDigita Prize, sponsored by ArsDigita and Philip Greenspun, was awarded annually in June 1999, 2000, and 2001 to young people who created "useful, educational, and collaborative" non-commercial Web sites.

The award

The winner received a $10,000 award, and the first runners-up each received $1,000. All first runners-up received a free trip to the computer research laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seats at a two-day seminar taught by Philip Greenspun, lunch with David D. Clark, Tim Berners-Lee and Michael Dertouzos, dinner with Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, and access to a Web server for life.

Past winners

2001:
* Simon Carstensen - The Reminder Network
* Zack Coburn (http://zackcoburn.com) - Ensophic
* Nathan Faber - Westport Learning Network
* Omar Fawzy - Quantum Mechanics Made Simple
* Heather Lawver - The Daily Prophet & Calculo (http://dprophet.com)
* Fabian Yamaguchi - The Young Programmer's Network

2000:
* (individual winner) Ara Anjargolian - SecondSaver.com
* team winners (tie)
** Arthur Chaparyan (http://chaparyan.com/) and Ara Mahdessian - Dev-Center.com (no longer online)
** Dan Blanchard, Greg Moyer and Andrew Widdowson - OpenWeasel Portal Toolkit
* Emily Boyd - Matmice
* John Carbrey - PcSnap.com: The Web Within Reach
* Justin Chan - ISP Quality of Service Monitor
* Steffen Tiedemann Christensen - Has It Been Updated?
* Dominik Rabiej (http://dominik.net/) - An interactive physics web site directory (http://dominik.net/physics/)
* Hilverd Reker - SiteMapper
* Jonathan Roes (http://blog.jroes.net/) - TrojanCheck
* Aaron Swartz (http://aaronsw.com/) - The Info Network

1999:
* (winner) Daniel Hunter - WebCalendar
* Nathaniel Duca - Escalation
* Nada Amin (http://stuff.mit.edu/people/namin/) - Metis Service
* David Sontag - eZstat
* Ian MacAllen - The New Theatre Guide
* Yiannis Volos - Yiannis Volos Internet Home
* Neal Sidhwaney - Western Computer Science Message Board
* Troy Davis - netscan.org

References

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20020201213602/www.arsdigita.com/prize/ Archive of the 2001 ArsDigita Prize]