The EFF Pioneer Award (Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award) is an annual prize for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers. Until 1998 it was presented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., USA. Thereafter it was presented at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. In 2007 it was presented at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
The 2012 Pioneer Awards will be held at the Project One Gallery in San Francisco on Thursday, September 20.
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