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 in Washington, D.C., but is now usually presented at CFP.

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Winners

  1. 1992: Douglas Engelbart, Robert E. Kahn, Tom Jennings, Jim Warren, Paul Baran, Vint Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes, USENET developers (accepted by Tom Truscott and Ivan Sutherland, Bill Atkinson, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, and the WELL (the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link)
  2. 1995: Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, Robert Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil (special award), Johan Helsingius, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Barbara Simons
  3. 1999: Jon Postel, Drazen Pantic, Karen Schneider), Tim Berners-Lee, Bruce Ennis, Seth Finkelstein, Dan Gillmor, Beth Givens, Jon Johansen and Writers of DeCSS
  4. 2003: Amy Goodman, Eben Moglen, Kim Alexander, David Dill, Aviel Rubin (for security issues with electronic voting
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