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|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| EFFector
| | ONline
| PIONEER WINNERS HONORED AT CEREMONY |
| IN WASHINGTON, D.C. | eff@eff.org
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| THE EFF ISDN PROJECT:AN INTERIM REPORT | 155 Second Street
| | Cambridge, MA 02141
| EFF INTERNATIONAL: | (617) 864-0665
| E-Mail from John Perry Barlow in Japan |
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ENGELBART, KAHN, WARREN, JENNINGS AND SMERECZYNSKI
HONORED WITH EFF PIONEER AWARDS
AT SPECIAL WASHINGTON CEREMONY
During a ceremony at the Second Conference on Computers, Freedom, and
Privacy in Washington, DC this month the First Annual Pioneer Awards
were given to five individuals judged to have made substantial
contributions to the field of computer-based communications. The
finalists were selected by six judges from a field of over 200 nominees.
The winners were: Douglas C. Engelbart of Fremont, California; Robert
Kahn of Reston, Virginia; Jim Warren of Woodside, California; Tom
Jennings of San Francisco, California; and Andrzej Smereczynski of
Warsaw, Poland.
Nominations for the Pioneer Awards were carried out over national and
international computer-communication systems from November, 1991 to
February 1992. Many of the nominations came from people who read
EFFector Online and the EFF would like to extend its thanks to all those
on the Net who contributed to this effort.
The Pioneer Winners
Douglas Engelbart is one of the original moving forces in the personal
computer revolution who is responsible for many ubiquitous features of
today's computers such as the mouse, the technique of windowing, display
editing,hypermedia, groupware and many other inventions and innovations.
He holds more than 20 patents and is widely-recognized in his field as
one of our era's true visionaries.
Robert Kahn was an early advocate and prime mover in the creation of
ARPANET which was the precursor of today's Internet. Since the late 60's
and early 70's Mr. Kahn has constantly promoted and tirelessly pursued
innovation and heightened connectivity in the world's computer networks.
Tom Jennings started the Fidonet international network. Today it is a
linked network of amateur electronic bulletin board systems (BBSs) with
more than 13,000 nodes worldwide and still growing. He contributed to
the technical backbone of this system by writing the FIDO BBS program,
as well as to the culture of the net by pushing for development and
expansion since the early days of BBSing. He is currently editor of
FidoNews, the network's electronic newsletter.
Jim Warren has been active in electronic networking for many years.
Most recently he has organized the First Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Conference, set-p the first online public dialogue link with the
California legislature, and has been instrumental is assuring that
rights common to older mediums and technologies are extended to computer
networking.
Andrzej Smereczynski is the Administrator of the PLEARN node of the
Internet and responsible for the extension of the Internet into Poland
and other east European countries. He is the person directly
responsible for setting up the first connection to the West in post-
Communist Middle Europe. A network "guru", Mr. Smereczynski has worked
selflessly and tirelessly to extend the technology of networking as well
as its implicit freedoms to Poland and neighboring countries.
This year's judges for the Pioneer Awards were: Dave Farber of the
University of Pennsylvania Computer Science Department; Howard
Rheingold, editor of The Whole Earth Review; Vint Cerf, head of CNRI;
Professor Dorothy Denning Chair of Georgetown University's Computer
Science Department; Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0, Steve Cisler of
Apple Computer, and John Gilmore of Cygnus Support.
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REPORT TO THE NET:
THE STATE OF THE EFF OPEN PLATFORM INITIATIVE
The Vision and the Goal
Until recently the nation's telecommunications policy debate has been a
struggle among entrenched commercial interests. These interests have,
for over a decade, been arguing over who will control and dominate
markets such as information services, manufacturing, and long distance
service. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, seeking to act from a
perspective of what is in the public interest, believes it is time to
table this argument. The EFF believes it is essential to move forward
now and seek technological tools, an economic and regulatory climate,
and legislative accord that, working in synergy, will create an
information marketplace open to all. This new information marketplace
will be one that will encourage the rapid development of diverse
information services. It would be an online marketplace characterized by
freedom, accessibility, and affordability. In the place of the current
no-win tussle over who should dominate, we would substitute a more
democratic vision: "Everybody's in. Nobody's out."
For some month's now, the EFF has been developing a proposal which calls
for the speedy deployment of Narrowband ISDN as the platform of choice
to begin building a National Public Information Network today.
Narrowband ISDN is a low-cost, digital, switched platform for delivery
of information services over the public switched network.
Narrowband ISDN, if offered nation-wide, and priced at mass-market
rates, will serve as a transitional telecommunications platform until
national switched broadband options become available early in the 21st
century.
With Narrowband ISDN in place, information entrepreneurs of all kinds
large and small will be able to reach an ever expanding market in which
to offer text, video, and interactive multimedia services. Public
agencies, private communications services, computer companies,
publishing firms and individuals will be able to access an inexpensive,
widely available medium in which to publish and communicate
electronically.
Background
In the Fall of 1991, the Electronic Frontier Foundation testified before
the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance on the subject
of Bell company entry into the information services market. To maintain
diversity of information services, EFF proposed the rapid deployment of
a digital information platform, using existing technology and
facilities, which could be made available to all on a ubiquitous,
affordable, equitable basis. Our testimony to congress suggested that
narrow band ISDN could be such a platform. Our task became to
investigate whether