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 the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. The EFF uses the blue ribbon as symbolism for their Free Speech defense. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) is an annual conference, beginning in 1991, about the intersection of computer technology, freedom, and privacy issues. ...

Winners

1. 1992: Douglas Engelbart, Robert E. Kahn, Tom Jennings, Jim Warren, Andrzej Smereczynski
2. 1993: Paul Baran, Vint Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes, USENET developers (accepted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis)
3. 1994: 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)
4. 1995: Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, Willis Ware
5. 1996: Robert Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and Matthew Blaze
6. 1997: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil (special award; posthumous with respect to Antheil), Johan Helsingius, Marc Rotenberg
7. 1998: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Barbara Simons
8. 1999: Jon Postel, Drazen Pantic, Simon Davies
9. 2000: "Librarians Everywhere" (accepted by Karen Schneider), Tim Berners-Lee, Phil Agre
10. 2001: Bruce Ennis (posthumous award), Seth Finkelstein, Stephanie Perrin
11. 2002: Dan Gillmor, Beth Givens, Jon Johansen and Writers of DeCSS
12. 2003: Amy Goodman, Eben Moglen, David Sobel
13. 2004: Kim Alexander, David Dill, Aviel Rubin (for security issues with electronic voting)
14. 2005: Mitch Kapor, Edward Felten, Patrick Ball

Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Norwegian descent. ... Robert E. Kahn, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol, the technology used to transmit information on the modern Internet. ... Tom Jennings (1955 - ) is the author of FidoNet, the first message and file networking system for BBSes. ... For an economist with same name, see Paul A. Baran Paul Baran (born 1926) was one of the developers of packet switched networks with Donald Davies. ... Vinton G. Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet. During his tenure from 1976 to 1982 with the United States Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related... Ward Christensen was the founder of the CBBS bulletin board. ... Dave Hughes, born and raised in Warrnambool, Victoria, is an Australian stand-up comedian. ... Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ... Ivan Edward Sutherland, younger brother of Bert Sutherland, was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovative program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers. ... Bill Atkinson worked at Apple Computer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Whitfield Diffie Bailey Whitfield Whit Diffie (born June 5, 1944) is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. ... Categories: Stub | 1945 births | Cryptographers ... Lee Felsenstein is a computer engineer who was the designer of the Osborne 1, the first portable computer. ... The Whole Earth Lectronic Link (or The WELL) is one of the oldest virtual communities still online. ... Philip Zimmermann (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. ... Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 - April 6, 2003) was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois, She grew up in Palatine, Illinois, Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Mukilteo, Washington. ... Robert Metcalfe (born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American technology pioneer who invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfes Law. ... Hedy Lamarr Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913–January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications innovator. ... George Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American composer and pianist of Polish descent. ... Johan Julf Helsingius, born in Finland, started and ran the Anon. ... Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) began the development of Linux, an operating system kernel, and today acts as the project coordinator (or Benevolent Dictator for Life). ... Richard Matthew Stallman, a. ... Barbara Simons is a prominent computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ... Jon Postel (Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. ... Simon Davies, (born October 23, 1979), is a versatile Welsh football player, he currently plays for Everton. ... The Librarian, a 1556 painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo A librarian is a person who develops procedures for organizing information and provides services that assist and instruct people in the most efficient way to identify and access any needed information or information resource (article, book, magazine, etc. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Categories: Hackers | Stub ... Dan Gillmor is a noted technology writer and former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. ... Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian who was involved in the release of the DeCSS software. ... DeCSS is a computer program capable of decrypting content on a DVD video disc encrypted using the Content Scrambling System (CSS). ... Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist and author. ... Eben Moglen is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, serves pro bono as General Counsel for Free Software Foundation, and is the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. ... Electronic voting (a. ... Mitch Kapor Mitchell David Kapor (born 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the killer application often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. ... Edward William Felten (born March 25, 1963) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. ...

External links

• Official website (http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/)