The EFF Pioneer Award The EFF Award , formerly EFF Pioneer Award ,[ 1] prize by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers.
Venue
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
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:
See also
References
^ "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 .
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