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EFF’s 17th Annual Pioneer Awards
were held on March 4, 2008 at the San Diego Mariott Hotel and Marina. Honorees were open source advocate Mitchell Baker and the Mozilla Foundation, Canadian copyfighter and law professor Michael Geist, and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein.
The event was made possible thanks to platinum sponsor TCHO. Founded by Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto and legendary chocolatier and former technologist Timothy Childs, TCHO is “a new chocolate company for a new generation of chocolate enthusiasts.” TCHO representatives kindly offered a beta release of their dark chocolate samples during the awards ceremony. Visit their website at http://www.tcho.com.
EFF would also like to thank our bronze sponsors MOG, Three Rings, Barracuda Networks, JibJab, and Atomic PR, and the O'Reilly ETech organizers for providing space and assistance. Thanks also to keynote speaker Michael Robertson.
Finally, many thanks are due to the 2008 Pioneer Awards judging panel, which reviewed the many nominations and decided on the final winners, and to all the attendees for contributing to an inspiring and successful evening. Pictures of the event can be seen below.
EFF would like to thank our Platinum Sponsor
Special thanks to our Bronze Sponsors
Judging PanelEFF would like to thank the Judging Panel for the 2008 Pioneer Awards: Kim AlexanderPresident and founder, California Voter FoundationCory DoctorowAward-winning author and activistMitch KaporPresident, Kapor Enterprises; co-founder and former chairman EFFDrazen PanticCo-director, Location OneBarbara SimonsIBM Research [Retired] and former president ACMJames TyreCo-founder, The Censorware Project; EFF policy fellowPast Pioneers2007: Yochai Benkler, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Schneier 2006: Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, and Jimmy Wales 2005: Mitch Kapor, Edward Felten, and Patrick Ball 2004: Kim Alexander, David Dill, and Aviel Rubin 2003: Amy Goodman, Eben Moglen, David Sobel 2002: Dan Gillmor, Beth Givens, Jon Johansen and Writers of DeCSS 2001: Bruce Ennis, Seth Finkelstein, and Stephanie Perrin 2000: "Librarians Everywhere", Tim Berners-Lee and Phil Agre 1999: Jon Postel, Drazen Pantic, and Simon Davies 1998: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Barbara Simons 1997: Hedy Lamarr, Johan Helsingius, and Marc Rotenberg 1996: Robert Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and Matthew Blaze 1995: Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, and Willis Ware 1994: Ivan Sutherland, Bill Atkinson, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, and the WELL 1993: Paul Baran, Vinton Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes and the USENET software developers 1992: Douglas C. Engelbart, Robert Kahn, Jim Warren, Tom Jennings, and Andrzej Smereczynski | Photos from the 2008 Awards Photos by Phil Karn.                                      Photos by Quinn Norton. View 2007 Pioneer Awards photos by Quinn Norton and Scott Beale. |
