EFF Pioneer Award
Science and engineering award
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The EFF Award, formerly EFF Pioneer Award,[1] is an annual prize by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals online.[2][3]
Winners
- 1992: Douglas Engelbart, Robert E. Kahn, Tom Jennings, Jim Warren, Andrzej Smereczynski
- 1993: Paul Baran, Vint Cerf,[2] Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes,[4] 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[4] and George Antheil (special award; posthumous with respect to Antheil), Johan Helsingius, Marc Rotenberg
- 1998: Linus Torvalds,[2] Richard Stallman, Barbara Simons
- 1999: Jon Postel (posthumous award), Drazen Pantic, Simon Davies[5]
- 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[6] and Writers of DeCSS[7]
- 2003: Amy Goodman, Eben Moglen,[8] David Sobel[9]
- 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[10]
- 2009: Limor "Ladyada" Fried,[11][12] 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[3]
- 2014: Frank La Rue, Zoe Lofgren, Trevor Paglen[3]
- 2015: Caspar Bowden (posthumous award), Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications and Kathy Sierra[13]
- 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.[14][15]
- 2017: Chelsea Manning,[2] Mike Masnick, Annie Game[16]
- 2018: Stephanie Lenz, Joe McNamee (from EDRi), Sarah T. Roberts[17]
- 2019: Danah boyd, Oakland Privacy, William Gibson[6][18]
- 2020: Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, Deborah Raji; Danielle Blunt; Open Technology Fund Community[19]
- 2021: Kade Crockford, Pam Dixon, Matt Mitchell[20]
Name change to EFF Awards:
- 2022: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Digital Defense Fund, Kyle Wiens[21]
- 2023: Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan,[2][6] Library Freedom Project, Signal Foundation[22][6][2]
- 2024: Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, 404 Media[23]
- 2025: Erie Meyer; Just Futures Law; Software Freedom Law Center, India[24]