EFF Pioneer Award

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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.

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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
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