Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internet pioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…EFFPioneerAwardrecipient, computer pioneer, Prince of Asturias Award winner, Turing Award laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

male, 56 years old
GNU, Free Software Foundation, hacker, rms, GNU Project, free software…Grace Murray Hopper Award laureate, EFFPioneerAwardrecipient, computer pioneer
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation. Builder AU recently caught up with RMS about his achievements,...
Edward Felten

Edward Felten

male, 46 years old
Public Affairs, Princeton University, proof-carrying authentication, Secure Digital Music Initiative, EFFPioneerAwardrecipient, Copyright activist
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a...
Jon Lech Johansen

Jon Lech Johansen

male, 26 years old
DVD Jon, DVD-Jon, info wars, content-scrambling system, reverse engineering, EFFPioneerAwardrecipient
Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983 in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian (his father is Norwegian and mother is Polish)...
Paul Baran

Paul Baran

male, 83 years old
Jewish, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Metricom, Stratacom, Telebit, University of California, Los Angeles alumni…EFFPioneerAwardrecipient, computer pioneer
Paul Baran (born April 29, 1926) was one of the developers of packet-switched networks along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock. He was born...
Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor

male
Mercury News, blogger, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley, Communicator, We the Media…EFFPioneerAwardrecipient
Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was one of the leading chroniclers of...
Eben Moglen

Eben Moglen

male (New York, New York, United States)
Free Software Foundation, GNU, GPL, American, Emacs user, Legal academic…EFFPioneerAwardrecipient
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom...
Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

male (St. Petersburg, Florida)
Internet personality, business owner, American entrepreneur, Internet celebrity, Business 2.0 The 50 Who Matter Now, entrepreneur…EFFPioneerAwardrecipient
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966,...
Phil Zimmermann

Phil Zimmermann

male, 55 years old
RSA Data Security, Inc., Public-key cryptographer, export of cryptography, Pretty Good Privacy, arms trafficking export controls, Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr…EFFPioneerAwardrecipient
Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption...