@import url(/stylesheets/eff-2box.css); @import url(/stylesheets/eff-nav.css); SITE MAP CASES ACTION CENTER PRESS ROOM ... August 20, 2005 For Immediate Release 11 March 1997 Movie Legend Hedy Lamarr to be Given Special Award at EFF's Sixth Annual Pioneer Awards Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release Burlingame, CA - March 12, 1997 - In what the organization's spokesman describes as "a unique event both for EFF and for the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference," the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will honor former movie actress Hedy Lamarr with a special award this evening for her co-invention of spread-spectrum broadcast communications technologies. Lamarr will be honored along with Johan Helsingius of Finland, and Marc Rotenberg of Washington, D.C., whose work for civil liberties on the Net has earned them each a 1997 Pioneer Award. The presentation of the Sixth Annual Pioneer Awards will take place in a ceremony this evening at the seventh annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. The conference is being held Tuesday through Friday of this week at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency hotel in Burlingame, California. The Pioneer Awards were started in 1991 in order to recognize individuals who have made significant and influential contributions to the development of computer-based communications or to the empowerment of individuals in using computers. Two individuals were named recipients of this year's Pioneer award; they are Johan ("Julf") Helsingius, for his pioneering work in exploring the socially constructive uses of anonymous communications on the Internet, and Marc Rotenberg, now the head of Electronic Privacy Information Center, for his many years of work in educating both the general public and the Washington policy community about the privacy and civil-liberties concerns raised by computer communications. | |
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