Electronic Frontier Foundation Honors Pioneer Award Winners

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<h4>For Immediate Release: Monday, April 19, 2004</h4>

<h1>Electronic Frontier Foundation Honors Pioneer Award Winners</h1>
<h2>EFF to Honor Kim Alexander, David Dill, and Aviel Rubin at
the Thirteenth Annual Pioneer Awards Ceremony</h2>
<h4>Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release</h4>

<p>
<em>San Francisco, CA </em>- 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.
</p>

<p>
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.
</p>

<p>
"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."
</p>

<p>
<strong>Kim Alexander</strong>
</p>

<p>
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.
</p>

<p>
Over the past decade, Alexander has led pioneering efforts
to develop the Internet into an effective tool for voter
education and campaign finance disclosure in California and
beyond. Her interest in democracy and technology led her to
become involved with voting technology, and she has since
become one of the nation\'s leading voices for secure and
verifiable computerized voting systems.
</p>

<p>
In 1999 she served on California\'s Internet Voting Task
Force, which in 2000 issued the first comprehensive study of
Internet voting security and concluded that the Internet was
not yet a safe place for securely transacting ballots. In
2003, she served on the California Secretary of State\'s Ad
Hoc Touch Screen Voting Task Force. The task force report
included a minority opinion of which Alexander was a
co-author. The California Secretary of State adopted the
opinion, and as a result, California is the first state in
the nation to require that electronic voting machines
provide a voter-verified paper trail.
</p>

<p>
<STRONG>David Dill</STRONG>
</p>

<p>
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.
</p>

<p>
In 2003, he turned a critical eye to electronic voting
systems, founding VerifiedVoting.org to champion transparent
and publicly verifiable elections. The VerifiedVoting.org
website educates the public about the problem with relying
upon electronic voting machines to record and count our
votes without the backup of a voter-verifiable audit trail;
points to reasonable solutions that are within reach; and
provides a list of actions voters can take, encouraging them
to act on their own behalf to ensure that their votes are
counted in future elections.
</p>

<p>
Dill served on the California Secretary of State\'s Ad Hoc
Committee on Touch Screen Voting, and joined Kim Alexander
in successfully advocating for voter-verified paper audit
trails. He also serves on the IEEE P1583 voting standards
committee, and is a member of the DRE Citizen\'s Oversight
Committee for Santa Clara County, California.
</p>

<p>
<STRONG>Aviel Rubin</STRONG>
</p>

<p>
Aviel Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical
Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns
Hopkins University.
</p>

<p>
Rubin led the effort to expose security flaws in Diebold
computer-based voting systems, combining technical skill and
articulation to the public in such a way that his solid
technical work could not be ignored by those who would
prefer an insecure status quo.
</p>

<p>
In 2003, Rubin co-authored a report on Diebold that focused
a national spotlight on the integrity of electronic voting
machines. He also co-authored an analysis of the
government\'s planned SERVE system for Internet voting for
military and overseas civilians, which led to the
cancellation of that dangerous project.
</p>

<p>
Rubin is author and co-author of several books on
information security, serves as Associate Editor of ACM
Transactions on Internet Technology, and is a member of the
advisory board of Springer\'s Information Security and
Cryptography Book Series. He is also a member of the board
of directors of the USENIX Association and serves on the
DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group.
</p>

<p>

The judges for this year\'s EFF Pioneer Awards were: Herb
Brody (Senior Editor, Technology Review), Beth Givens
(Founder and Director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse),
Moira Gunn (Host, "Tech Nation," National Public Radio),
Donna Hoffman (Associate Professor of Management, Vanderbilt
University), Peter Neumann (Principal Scientist, SRI Intl.;
Moderator, ACM Risks Forum), Drazen Pantic (Media & Tech.
Director, NYU Center for War, Peace & the News Media),
Barbara Simons (past President, Association for Computing
Machinery & U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Alumnus), and Karen
Schneider (Director, Librarians\' Index to the Internet).
</p>

<p>
Prior Pioneer Award recipients include Tim Berners-Lee,
Linus Torvalds, and Vinton Cerf, among many others.
</p>

<p>
For this advisory:<br>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/2004.php">https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/2004.php</a>
</p>

<p>
For more information about the EFF Pioneer Awards:<br>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/">https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/</a>
</p>

<p>
For details about the 2004 CFP conference:<br>
<a href="http://www.cfp2004.org/">http://www.cfp2004.org/</a>
</p>

<h3>Contact:</h3>

<p>
Katina Bishop<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;Director of Education and Offline Activism<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;Electronic Frontier Foundation<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:katina&#64;&#101;&#102;&#102;&#46;&#111;&#114;&#103;">katina&#64;&#101;&#102;&#102;&#46;&#111;&#114;&#103;</a></p>

<h3>About EFF:</h3>

<p>
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil
liberties organization working to protect rights in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and
challenges industry and government to support free
expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported
organization and maintains one of the most linked-to
websites in the world at
<a href="https://www.eff.org/">https://www.eff.org/</a>
</p>

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