EFF Pioneer Awards

The Electronic Frontier Foundation gives out a set of awards annually to people who've made "a substantial contribution to the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications". This year's awards went to: "Librarians Everywhere", which was accepted by Karen Schneider, a librarian who has opposed efforts to install censorware in libraries; Phil Agre, computer scientist and professor at UCLA; and Tim Berners-Lee of MIT, director of W3C. Dan Gillmor has a story, and sooner or later EFF will update their awards page with the text of this year's award.