Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
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The "Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award" (formerly the SoftQuad Award for Excellence) is a prize awarded annually by the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation. According to the foundation, it is given "to an individual who has contributed, through a lifetime of effort, to the care and feeding of the global information infrastructure." The award is accompanied by a cash payout of $10,000.
Winners:
- 19?? Vint Cerf
- 19?? Douglas Engelbart
- 1997 Gregg Vanderheiden [1] (http://www.resna.org/sigs/sig11/archive/yuri.htm)
- 1998 Ted Nelson
- 1999 Richard Stallman [2] (http://www.ahref.com/guides/industry/199907/0727piou2.html)
External link
- Memories of Yuri Rubinsky (http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/yuriMemColl.html)