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., USA. Thereafter it was presented at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. In 2007 it was presented at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
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 Matthew 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, Drazen Pantic, Simon Davies
- 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
- 2004: Kim Alexander, David 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 & its chair Mitchell Baker; Michael Geist; and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein
- 2009: Limor "Ladyada" Fried, Harri Hursti and Carl Malamud
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