EFF Pioneer Award
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The EFF Award, formerly EFF Pioneer Award,[1] is an annual prize by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers.
Venue
[edit]Until 1998 it was presented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., United States. Thereafter it was presented at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. In 2007 it was presented at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.[citation needed]
Winners
[edit]- 1992: Douglas Engelbart, Robert E. Kahn, Tom Jennings, Jim Warren, Andrzej Smereczynski
- 1993: Paul Baran, Vint Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes, USENET developers (accepted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis)
- 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)
- 1995: Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, Willis Ware
- 1996: Robert Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and Matt Blaze
- 1997: Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil (special award; posthumous with respect to Antheil), Johan Helsingius, Marc Rotenberg
- 1998: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Barbara Simons
- 1999: Jon Postel (posthumous award), Drazen Pantic, Simon Davies[2]
- 2000: "Librarians Everywhere" (accepted by Karen 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 of DeCSS
- 2003: Amy Goodman, Eben Moglen, David Sobel[3]
- 2004: Kim Alexander, David L. Dill, Avi Rubin (for security issues with electronic voting)
- 2005: Mitch Kapor, Edward Felten, Patrick Ball
- 2006: Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, Jimmy Wales
- 2007: Yochai Benkler, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Schneier
- 2008: Mozilla Foundation and its chair Mitchell Baker; Michael Geist; and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein[4]
- 2009: Limor "Ladyada" Fried, Harri Hursti and Carl Malamud
- 2010: Steven Aftergood, James Boyle, Pamela Jones of the Groklaw website and Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru
- 2011: Ron Wyden, Ian Goldberg, and Nawaat.org
- 2012: Andrew (bunnie) Huang, Jérémie Zimmermann, The Tor Project
- 2013: Aaron Swartz (posthumous award), James Love, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras
- 2014: Frank La Rue, Zoe Lofgren, Trevor Paglen
- 2015: Caspar Bowden (posthumous award), Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications and Kathy Sierra[5]
- 2016: Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, data protection activist Max Schrems, the authors of the "Keys Under Doormats" report, and California State Senators Mark Leno and Joel Anderson.[6][7]
- 2017: Chelsea Manning, Mike Masnick, Annie Game[8]
- 2018: Stephanie Lenz, Joe McNamee (from EDRi), Sarah T. Roberts[9]
- 2019: danah boyd, Oakland Privacy, William Gibson[10]
- 2020: Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, Deborah Raji; Danielle Blunt; Open Technology Fund Community[11]
- 2021: Kade Crockford, Pam Dixon, Matt Mitchell[12]
Name change to EFF Awards:
- 2022: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Digital Defense Fund, Kyle Wiens[13]
- 2023: Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, Signal Foundation[14]
- 2024: Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, 404 Media[15]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "EFF Awards: Past Winners". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ^ McCullagh, Declan (7 April 1999). "Yugoslav Dissident Lauded". Wired News. Archived from the original on November 28, 1999. Retrieved 24 Jul 2014.
- ^ "David Sobel: Senior Counsel". Staff web page. EFF. 7 October 2011. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
- ^ EFF Announces Pioneer Awards 2008
- ^ "EFF Announces 2015 Pioneer Award Winners: Caspar Bowden, Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra". Electronic Frontier Foundation. August 26, 2015. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
- ^ "2016 Pioneer Awards". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "EFF Announces 2016 Pioneer Award Winners: Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, Data Protection Activist Max Schrems, the Authors of 'Keys Under Doormats,' and the Lawmakers Behind CalECPA". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, Techdirt Founder Mike Masnick, and Free Expression Defender Annie Game Named Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award Winners". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- ^ "Pioneer Awards 2018 | Electronic Frontier Foundation". 21 June 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ^ "Pioneer Award Ceremony 2019 | Electronic Frontier Foundation". 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Pioneer Award Ceremony 2020". 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Pioneer Award Ceremony 2021". 23 August 2021.
- ^ "EFF Awards 2022". 14 September 2022.
- ^ "EFF Awards 2023". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 14 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Release, Press (2024-07-25). "Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual EFF Awards to Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2024-07-25.