Torvalds, Stallman, Simons Win 1998 Pioneer Awards

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<h4>For Immediate Release February 19, 1998</h4>
<H1>Torvalds, Stallman, Simons Win 1998 Pioneer Awards</H1>
<h4>Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release</h4>


<p>Austin, TX - March 12, 1998 - The ceremony for the Seventh Annual Pioneer
Awards will take place this evening at the eighth annual Computers, Freedom
and Privacy Conference, which is taking place on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday this week in Austin, Texas. Three individuals have been named
recipients of this year\'s award; they are Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman,
and Barbara Simons.</p>

<p>Torvalds was named a recipient of one of this year\'s Pioneer Awards for
his development of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for the Linux
operating system, a public-domain Unix workalike.  Stallman is receiving
an award for founding the GNU Project in 1984, and for his work in
developing that project, the goal of which has been to create a complete
"free"  version of Unix. It is Torvalds\'s kernel plus Stallman\'s GNU
project that has given rise to Linux, a multiple-platform Unix-like
operating system that is the one of the only serious public-domain
alternatives to commercial operating systems such as Unix and Windows NT.
A detailed account of Torvalds\'s and Stallman\'s respective roles in
developing to the Linux operating system can be found in the August 1997
issue of Wired magazine. </p>

<p>Barbara Simons is receiving a Pioneer Award for her leadership in
technology-policy issues. Simons founded and chairs Association for
Computing Machinery\'s U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USACM), which
deals with these issues. She was ACM secretary from 1990 to 1992, prior to
which she chaired the ACM Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human
Rights. She has served as Project Advisor to the Project on Funding Policy
in Computer Science, which she founded;  she co-founded the U.C. Berkeley
Computer Science Department Reentry Program for Women and Minorities. She
also has testified before both the U.S. and the California legislatures
and at government-sponsored hearings on cryptography, medical privacy,
authentication for access to on-line records, and intellectual property on
the Internet. </p>

<h3>About the Pioneer Awards</h3>

<p>The Pioneer Awards were started in 1991 in order to recognize individuals
who have made significant and influential contributions to the development
of computer-based communications or to the empowerment of individuals in
using computers.</p>

<p>In March of 1992, the first EFF Pioneer Awards were given in Washington,
D.C.  The winners were: Douglas C. Engelbart, Robert Kahn, Jim Warren, Tom
Jennings, and Andrzej Smereczynski. The 1993 Pioneer Award recipients were
Paul Baran, Vinton Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes and the USENET
software developers, represented by the software\'s originators Tom
Truscott  and Jim Ellis. The 1994 Pioneer Award winners were Ivan
Sutherland, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr
 Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, Bill Atkinson, and the WELL. The 1995
Pioneer Award winners were Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, and Willis Ware.
The 1996 winners were Shabbir Safdar, Matt Blaze, Peter Neumann, and Robert
Metcalfe. The 1997 winners were Marc Rotenberg, Johan "Julf" Helsingius,
and (special honorees) Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil.</p>

<h3>About the Judges</h3>

<p>The judges for the seventh annual EFF Pioneer Awards were: Hal Abelson,
Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Karen Coyle, librarian at the University of California and president of the
Berkeley chapter of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility;
Bruce Koball, technical consultant and one of the organizers of the
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference; Simona Nass, founder of the
Society for Electronic Access and board member of the Voters
Telecommunications Watch; Peter Neumann, principal scientist at SRI
International, and Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, who coordinated the judging process.</p>

<h3>Links:</h3>
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/">EFF Pioneer Awards</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Contact:</h3>
<p>Mike Godwin<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; mnemonic@eff.org<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; 212-317-6552, Fax: 212-317-6571</p>

<h3>About EFF</h3>

<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit organization
founded in 1990 to ensure the protection of civil liberties, such as
privacy and freedom of expression, as new communications technologies
emerge.  Through its work with policymakers, industry organizations,
communications media and the public, EFF is committed to protecting and
defining civil rights and responsibilities within the realm of computing
and telecommunications.</p>
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