Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 11:04:45 -0500
From: Cratig Neidorf <knight@EFF.ORG>
Subject: File 3-- EFF Announces Pioneer Award Winners

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>date: Mon, 16 Mar 1992 18:49:32 -0500
>To: eff-board, eff-staff
>From: van (Gerard Van der Leun)
>Subject: EFF Announces Pioneer Award Winners
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>
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>ENGELBART, KAHN, WARREN, JENNINGS AND SMERECZYNSKI
>NAMED AS FIRST WINNERS OF THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION'S PIONEER
>AWARDS
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>Cambridge  March 16,1992
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>
>The Electronic Frontier tFoundation (EFF) today announced the five
>winners of the first annual EFF Pioneer Awards for substantial
>contributions to the field of computer based communications.  The
>winners are: Douglas C. Engelbart of Fremont, California; Robert Kahn of
>Reston, Virginia; Jim Warren of Woodside, California; Tom Jennings of
>San Francisco, California; and Andrzej Smereczynski of Warsaw, Poland.
>
>The winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony open to
>the public this Thursday, March 19, at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in
>Washington, DC, beginning at 5:15 PM. Most winners are expected to be
>present to accept the awards in person.  The ceremony is part of this
>week's Second Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy that is
>taking place at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in D.C.
>
>Mitchell Kapor, President of the EFF, said today that: "We've created
>the Pioneer Awards in order to recognize and honor individuals who have
>made ground-breaking contributions to the technology and culture of
>digital networks and communities."
>
>Nominations for the Pioneer Awards were carried out over national and
>international computer-communication systems from November, 1991 to
>February 1992.  Several hundred nominations were received by the
>Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the final winners were selected by a
>panel of six judges.
>
>The criteria for the Pioneer Awards was that the person or organization
>nominated had to have made a substantial contribution to the health,
>growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications.
>
>                   The Pioneer Winners
>
>Douglas Engelbart is one of the original moving forces in the personal
>computer revolution who is responsible for many ubiquitous features of
>today's computers such as the mouse, the technique of windowing, display
>editing, hypermedia, groupware and many other inventions and
>innovations. He holds more than 20 patents and is widely-recognized in
>his field as one of our era's true visionaries.
>
>Robert Kahn was an early advocate and prime mover in the creation of
>ARPANET which was the precursor of today's Internet. Since the late 60's
>and early 70's Mr. Kahn has constantly promoted and tirelessly pursued
>innovation and heightened connectivity in the world's computer networks.
>
>Tom Jennings started the Fidonet international network. Today it is a
>linked network of amateur electronic bulletin board systems (BBSs) with
>more than 10,000 nodes worldwide and it is still growing. He contributed
>to the technical backbone of this system by writing the FIDO BBS program
>as well as to the culture of the net by pushing for development and
>expansion since the early days of BBSing.  He is currently editor of
>FidoNews, the network's electronic newsletter.
>
>Jim Warren has been active in electronic networking for many years.
>Most recently he has organized the First Computers, Freedom and Privacy
>Conference, set-p the first online public dialogue link with the
>California legislature, and has been instrumental is assuring that
>rights common to older mediums and technologies are extended to computer
>networking.
>
>Andrzej Smereczynski is the Administrator of the PLEARN node of the
>Internet and responsible for the extension of the Internet into Poland
>and other east European countries.  He is the person directly
>responsible for setting up the first connection to the West in post-
>Communist Middle Europe.  A network "guru", Mr. Smereczynski has worked
>selflessly and tirelessly to extend the technology of networking as well
>as its implicit freedoms to Poland and neighboring countries.
>
>This year's judges for the Pioneer Awards were: Dave Farber of the
>University of Pennsylvania Computer Science Department; Howard
>Rheingold, editor of The Whole Earth Review; Vint Cerf, head of CNRI;
>Professor Dorothy Denning Chair of George Washington University's
>Computer Science Department; Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0, Steve
>Cisler of Apple Computer, and John Gilmore of Cygnus Support.
>
>For more information contact:
>Gerard Van der Leun
>Director of Communications
>Electronic Frontier Foundation
>155 Second Street
>Cambridge, MA 02141
>(617) 864-0665
>Internet: van@eff.org
>
>Gerard Van der Leun
>Communications Director EFF
>van@eff.org

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