Next Wednesday, as part of the festivities in Seattle's Computers, Freedom and Privacy confernece, EFF will host its Pioneer Awards, at 7PM at the Sci Fi Museum. Today, the org released the list of (very) distinguished winners for the year:
Dr. Patrick Ball is a leading innovator in applying
scientific measurement to human rights. He directs the
Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) at Benetech
(www.benetech.org), a nonprofit organization that combines
the impact of technological solutions with the social
entrepreneurship business model to help disadvantaged
communities. He served as the catalyst behind two open
source software tools for the human rights community,
"Martus" and "Analyzer," which aid in the secure storage
and analysis of data on human rights violations. He will be
accepting his award from East Timor.Edward Felten is a professor of Computer Science at
Princeton University whose research interests include
computer security and technology law and policy. He brings
these scholarly interests to his work as an activist. In
2001, Felten and EFF sued the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) and the Secure Digital Music
Initiative (SDMI) in a case challenging the
constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA). Felten is also author of "Freedom to Tinker"
(www.freedom-to-tinker.com), a highly regarded weblog
exploring the ways government and industry attempt to limit
technological innovation and what activists can do about
it.Mitch Kapor is President and Chair of the Open Source
Applications Foundation (www.osafoundation.org), a
nonprofit organization he founded in 2001 to promote the
development and acceptance of high-quality application
software developed and distributed using open source
methods and licenses. He is widely known as founder of
Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus
1-2-3, the "killer app" that made the personal computer
ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980's. In 1990 he
co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and served as
its chairman until 1994.
