Pioneer Award Winners Honored at Ninth Annual Ceremony in Toronto

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<h4>For Immediate Release Thursday, April 6, 2000</h4>

<h1>Pioneer Award Winners Honored at Ninth Annual Ceremony in Toronto</h1>

<h2>"Librarians Everywhere", Tim Berners-Lee and Phil Agre Win Pioneer Awards at CFP 2000</h2>

<h4>Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release</h4>


<P>
Toronto, Canada -- The ceremony for the Ninth Annual EFF Pioneer Awards will
take place on April 6th, 2000 as part of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy
conference which is going on this week in Toronto, Canada. The online civil
liberties group chose to honor: Librarians Everywhere, in appreciation of
the difficult and often overlooked battles that many librarians have fought
to protect free expression on to the Internet, as well our privacy and
equity of access rights; Tim Berners-Lee for his popularization of the
concept of the World Wide Web, and Phil Agre, for his dedication in
educating the public about the social and political aspects of technology
and computing.
</P>

<P>
<B>Tim Berners-Lee</B> holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer
Science ( LCS)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs
the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations
with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential. We recognize Tim for
having the vision to recognize the significance of the research done on
hyperlinks, and for bringing the concept of the World Wide Web to its
popular and widely used standing.
</P>

<P>
<B>Phil Agre</B> is an associate professor of information studies at the University
of California, Los Angeles. He founded and maintains a mailing list entitled
Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). Most of the messages concern social and
political aspects of computing and networking. Agre dedicates a commendable
measure of intellect and energy to helping people become aware of issues,
conferences, e-newsletters, and URLs that deepen societal awareness of
technical issues.
</P>

<P>
<B>"Librarians Everywhere"</B>: Karen Schneider (Technical Director of the
Shenendehowa Public Library, Clifton, NY) has been chosen to accept
this award
on behalf of and as a representative of librarians around the world fighting for the public\'s
right to free expression in cyberspace. These librarians have also been on
the front-line working to prevent censorship of the Internet in libraries,
privacy of check-out records, and equity of access to all information
contained in the library. These librarians act from a strong core ethic.
Their individual actions show admirable bravery as they stand up for
intellectual freedom and democracy though in many cases, their jobs are on
the line.
</P>

<P>
The EFF Pioneer Awards have been used by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
since 1991 to recognize 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.
</P>

<P>
"When we began the pioneer awards, few realized how much the digital world
would change the whole world," states EFF Chairman, Brad Templeton. "Now,
while the online revolution no longer needs an introduction, those we
recognize today, along with the prior honorees, represent the pioneers of
the pioneers. We\'re living at the dawn of a new age, and unlike most such
dawns, we\'re actually aware of it. These people have fought to change the
world and make it a better and freer place."
</P>

<P>
In March of 1992, the first EFF Pioneer Awards were given in Washington, DC
to: 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 (posthumously) George Antheil. The 1998 winners were Linus
Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Barbara Simons. The 1999 winners were Jon
Postel (posthumously), Drazen Pantic, and Simon Davies.
</P>

<P>
The judges for this year\'s EFF Pioneer Awards were: Herb Brody, Senior
Editor, Technology Review; Dave Farber, Chief Technologist, FCC; Moira Gunn,
Host, Tech Nation, NPR; Larry Irving, CEO, UrbanMagic.com; Tara Lemmey,
Executive Director, EFF; Peter G. Neumann, Principal Scientist, Computer
Science Lab, SRI International and Moderator, ACM Risks Forum (1996 EFF
Pioneer Award Recipient); Susan H. Nycum, Partner, Baker & McKenzie; Drazen
Pantic, NYU Center for War, Peace, & the News Media (1999 EFF Pioneer Award
Recipient); Barbara Simons, President, ACM (1998 EFF Pioneer Award
Recipient)
</P>

<P>
The Ninth Annual EFF Pioneer Awards ceremony will be held on the evening of
April 6, 2000 in Toronto\'s historic St. Lawrence Hall. The ceremony and
reception are made possible by a contribution from <A HREF="http://www.anonymizer.com">Anonymizer.com</A>.
</P>

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

<h3>Contact:</h3>

<p>Katina Bishop<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; Electronic Frontier Foundation<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; katina&#64;&#101;&#102;&#102;&#46;&#111;&#114;&#103;</p>

<h3>About EFF:</h3>

<P>The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading global nonprofit
organization linking technical architectures with legal frameworks to
support the rights of individuals in an open society.  Founded
in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and
government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
information society.  EFF is a member-supported organization and
maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world.</P>
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