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Seeking Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier

Call for Nominations:
The Tenth Annual International EFF Pioneer Awards
Please redistribute this notice in appropriate fora.
Intro
In every field of human endeavor, there are those dedicated to
expanding knowledge, freedom, efficiency, and utility. Many of today's
brightest innovators are working along the electronic frontier. To
recognize these leaders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
established the Pioneer Awards for deserving individuals and
organizations.
The Pioneer Awards are international and nominations are open to all.
The deadline for nominations this year is Feb. 1, 2001 (see nomination
criteria and instructions below).
The 2001 Awards
The Tenth Annual EFF Pioneer Awards will be presented in Toronto,
Canada, at the 11th Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (see
http://www.cfp2001.org ), Boston, MA. The ceremony will be held on the
evening of Thu., March 8, 2001, at the Boston Aquarium. All
nominations will be reviewed by a panel of judges chosen for their
knowledge of the technical, legal, and social issues associated with
information technology, some of them Pioneer Award recipients
themselves.
This year's EFF Pioneer Awards judges are:
* Herb Brody (Senior Editor, Technology Review)
* Moira Gunn (Host, "Tech Nation", National Public Radio)
* Donna L. Hoffman (Associate Professor of Management, Vanderbilt
University)
* Peter G. Neumann (Principal Scientist, SRI Intl.; Moderator,
ACM Risks Forum)
* Drazen Pantic (Media & Tech. Director, NYU Center for War, Peace,
& the News Media)
* Barbara Simons (President, Association for Computing Machinery)
* Karen G. Schneider (Technical Director, Shenendehowa Public
Library, NY)
How to Nominate Someone
There are no specific categories for the EFF Pioneer Awards, but the
following guidelines apply:
1. The nominees must have made a substantial contribution to the
generation, growth, accessibility, and/or freedom of
computer-based communications.
2. The contribution may be technical, social, economic, or cultural.
3. Nominations may be of individuals, teams, systems, or
organizations in the private or public sectors.
4. Nominations are open to all, and you may nominate more than one
recipient. You may nominate yourself or your organization.
5. All nominations, to be valid, must contain your reasons, however
brief, for nominating the individual or organization, along with a
means of contacting the nominee, and your own contact information.
Anonymous nominations will be allowed, but we prefer to be able to
contact the nominating parties in the event that we need further
information about the nominee.
6. Any entity is eligible for an EFF Pioneer Award, with the
exceptions of current EFF staff and board members, current Pioneer
Award judges, and previous Pioneer Award recipients (unless
nominated for something new and different.)
7. Honorees (or representatives of honoree organizations) receiving
an EFF Pioneer Award will be invited to attend the ceremony at the
Foundation's expense.
You may send as many nominations as you wish, but please use one
e-mail per nomination. (This is not a vote or a popularity contest, so
you do not need to campaign, or send multiple nominations for the same
nominee.) Submit all entries to: pioneer AT eff.org
Just tell us:
1. the name of the nominee;
2. a phone number or e-mail address at which the nominee can be
reached; and, most importantly,
3. why you feel the nominee deserves the award.
You may attach supporting documentation in plain text, or Microsoft
Word or other common binary formats. URLs to documentation elsewhere
may also be helpful.
Past Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier
1992: Douglas C. Engelbart, Robert Kahn, Jim Warren, Tom Jennings, and
Andrzej Smereczynski; 1993: Paul Baran, Vinton Cerf, Ward Christensen,
Dave Hughes and the USENET software developers, represented by the
software's originators Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis; 1994: Ivan
Sutherland, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and
Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, Bill Atkinson, and the WELL;
1995: Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, and Willis Ware; 1996: Robert
Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and Matthew Blaze; 1997: Marc
Rotenberg, Johan "Julf" Helsingius, and (special honorees) Hedy Lamarr
and George Antheil; 1998: Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and
Barbara Simons; 1999: Jon Postel, Drazen Pantic, and Simon Davies;
2000: Tim Berners Lee, Phil Agre, and librarians everywhere,
represented by librarian Karen G. Schneider.
See http://www.eff.org/awards for further information.