Coming up this week at
CFP2004,
Electronic Frontier Foundation Honors Pioneer Award
Winners: EFF to Honor Kim Alexander, David Dill, and Aviel
Rubin at the Thirteenth Annual Pioneer Awards Ceremony
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will hold its 13th
Annual Pioneer Awards presentation at 6:30 p.m. on April 22nd at the
Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California, in conjunction
with the 2004 Computers, Freedom & Privacy (CFP) conference. The online
civil liberties group chose to honor Kim Alexander, David Dill, and
Aviel Rubin for spearheading and nurturing the popular movement for
integrity and transparency in modern elections.
Since 1991, the EFF Pioneer Awards have recognized individuals who have
made significant and influential contributions to the development of
computer-mediated communications or to the empowerment of individuals
in using computers and the Internet.
I'm so pleased to be able to give this recognition to Kim, David,
and Avi. Like many others who often go unrecognized, they have been
doing incredibly important work to protect our democracy while using
technology, said EFF Executive Director Shari Steele. I'm
proud that EFF is able to honor a few of these generally unsung heroes
with our yearly Pioneer Awards.
- Kim Alexander is president of the
California
Voter Foundation (CVF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization she
started in 1994 to advance new technologies to improve democracy.
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David Dill is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
University with a primary research focus on the theory and application
of formal verification techniques to system designs, including
hardware, protocols, and software.
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Aviel Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director
of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Check out the EFF press release link for more on the good work these
three have done that merits their being so honored. Congratulations,
and thank you so much, Kim, David, Avi!
Past recipients of the EFF Pioneer Award include Amy Goodman, of
Democracy Now!, computer programmer, law professor, and free
software advocate,
Eben Moglen, columnist
Dan Gillmor, the
deCSS authors, anti-censorship activist and programmer
Seth Finkelstein, the late head of the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority,
Jon Postel,
Drazen Pantic, of Serbian
Radio B92,
Linus Torvalds,
Richard Stallman,
Barbara Simons,
Hedy
Lamarr,
Anita Borg,
Whit Diffie and Marty Hellman,
Vint Cerf,
Tom Jennings, who started the
FidoNet international network,
author of
PGP
Philip Zimmermann, the online community
The Well,
and
librarians everywhere.
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