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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 CFP.1 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 WELLThe "Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link" (or WELL) is one of the first wide-ranging, informed, intelligent bulletin boards ( BBS) on the Internet. It was started by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant in 1985. The name is partially a reference to some of Stewart B (the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link)
- 1995: Philip Zimmermann, Anita BorgAnita Borg ( January 17, 1949 April 6, 2003) was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois, She grew up in Palatine, Illinois, Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Mukilteo, Washington. Founding Director of The Institute of Women and Technology Founded in 1987. IWT supp, Willis Ware
- 1996: Robert MetcalfeRobert Metcalfe (born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American technology pioneer who invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law. Bob Metcalfe was working at Xerox PARC in 1973 when he invented Ethernet, a standard for connecting comp, Peter Neumann , Shabbir Safdar and Matthew Blaze
- 1997: Hedy LamarrHedy Lamarr ( November 9, 1913 January 19, 2000) was an actress and communications innovator. She was known as The Most Beautiful Woman In Films and also as the inventor of the first form of spread spectrum. Life Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler i and George AntheilGeorge Antheil ( June 8, 1900 February 12, 1959) was an American composer and pianist of Polish descent. He first established a career as a concert pianist, mostly in Europe, but shortly thereafter also attracted notice for his avant-garde compositions, w (special award), Johan Helsingius , Marc Rotenberg
- 1998: Linus TorvaldsLinus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) began the development of Linux, an operating system kernel, and today acts as the project coordinator (or Benevolent Dictator for Life). Inspired by the teaching system Minix (developed by Andrew Tanenbaum), Richard StallmanRichard Matthew Stallman RMS born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this moveme, Barbara Simons
- 1999: Jon Postel, Drazen Pantic , Simon Davies
- 2000: "Librarians Everywhere" (accepted by Karen Schneider ), Tim Berners-Lee, Phil Agre
- 2001: Bruce Ennis , 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 , Aviel Rubin (for security issues with electronic voting
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