The EFF Award, formerly EFF Pioneer Award, is an annual prize by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals online.

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 Matt 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 (posthumous award), Drazen Pantic, Simon Davies 2000: "Librarians Everywhere" (accepted by Karen G. Schneider), Tim Berners-Lee, Phil Agre 2001: Bruce Ennis (attorney) (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 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 KleinEFF Announces Pioneer Awards 2008 2009: Limor "Ladyada" Fried, 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 2014: Frank La Rue, Zoe Lofgren, Trevor Paglen 2015: Caspar Bowden (posthumous award), Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications and Kathy Sierra 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. 2017: Chelsea Manning, Mike Masnick, Annie Game 2018: Stephanie Lenz, Joe McNamee (from EDRi), Sarah T. Roberts 2019: Danah boyd, Oakland Privacy, William Gibson 2020: Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, Deborah Raji; Danielle Blunt; Open Technology Fund Community 2021: Kade Crockford, Pam Dixon, Matt Mitchell Name change to EFF Awards: 2022: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Digital Defense Fund, Kyle Wiens 2023: Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, Signal Foundation 2024: Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, 404 Media 2025: Erie Meyer; Just Futures Law; Software Freedom Law Center, India

See also

List of computer-related awards

References