- EFF Pioneer Award
The EFF Pioneer Award is an annual
prize for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers. Until 1998 it was presented at a ceremony inWashington, D.C. ,USA . Thereafter it was presented at theComputers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. In 2007 it was presented at theO'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference .Winners
* 1992:
Douglas Engelbart ,Robert E. Kahn ,Tom Jennings ,Jim Warren ,Andrzej Smereczynski
* 1993:Paul Baran ,Vint Cerf ,Ward Christensen ,Dave Hughes ,USENET developers (accepted byTom Truscott andJim Ellis )
* 1994:Ivan Sutherland ,Bill Atkinson ,Whitfield Diffie andMartin Hellman ,Murray Turoff andStarr Roxanne Hiltz ,Lee Felsenstein , and the WELL (the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link)
* 1995:Philip Zimmermann ,Anita Borg ,Willis Ware
* 1996:Robert Metcalfe , Peter Neumann,Shabbir Safdar andMatthew Blaze
* 1997:Hedy Lamarr andGeorge Antheil (special award; posthumous with respect to Antheil),Johan Helsingius ,Marc Rotenberg
* 1998:Linus Torvalds ,Richard Stallman ,Barbara Simons
* 1999:Jon Postel ,Drazen Pantic ,Simon Davies
* 2000: "Librarian s Everywhere" (accepted byKaren G. Schneider ),Tim Berners-Lee ,Phil Agre
* 2001:Bruce Ennis (posthumous award), Seth Finkelstein,Stephanie Perrin
* 2002:Dan Gillmor ,Beth Givens ,Jon Johansen and Writers ofDeCSS
* 2003:Amy Goodman ,Eben Moglen ,David Sobel
* 2004:Kim Alexander ,David Dill ,Avi Rubin (for security issues withelectronic voting )
* 2005:Mitch Kapor ,Edward Felten ,Patrick Ball
* 2006:Craigslist ,Gigi Sohn ,Jimmy Wales
* 2007:Yochai Benkler ,Cory Doctorow ,Bruce Schneier
* 2008:Mozilla Foundation & its chairMitchell Baker ;Michael Geist ; and AT&Twhistleblower Mark Klein [ [http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/02/21 EFF Announces Pioneer Awards] ]References
External links
* [http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/ Official website]
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