ArsDigita Prize
The ArsDigita Prize, sponsored by ArsDigita and Philip Greenspun, was awarded annually in June 1999, 2000, and 2001 to young people who created "useful, educational, and collaborative" non-commercial Web sites.
The award
The winner received a $10,000 award, and the first runners-up each received $1,000. All first runners-up received a free trip to the computer research laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seats at a two-day seminar taught by Philip Greenspun, lunch with David D. Clark, Tim Berners-Lee and Michael Dertouzos, dinner with Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, and access to a Web server for life.
Past winners
2001:
- Simon Carstensen - The Reminder Network
- Zack Coburn (http://zackcoburn.com) - Ensophic
- Nathan Faber - Westport Learning Network
- Omar Fawzy - Quantum Mechanics Made Simple
- Heather Lawver - The Daily Prophet & Calculo (http://dprophet.com)
- Fabian Yamaguchi - The Young Programmer's Network
2000:
- (individual winner) Ara Anjargolian - SecondSaver.com
- team winners (tie)
- Arthur Chaparyan and Ara Mahdessian - Dev-Center.com (no longer online)
- Dan Blanchard (http://dan-blanchard.github.io), Greg Moyer and Andrew Widdowson - OpenWeasel Portal Toolkit
- Emily Boyd - Matmice
- John Carbrey - PcSnap.com: The Web Within Reach
- Justin Chan - ISP Quality of Service Monitor
- Steffen Tiedemann Christensen - Has It Been Updated?
- Dominik Rabiej (http://dominik.net/) - An interactive physics web site directory (http://dominik.net/physics/)
- Hilverd Reker - SiteMapper
- Jonathan Roes (http://blog.jroes.net/) - TrojanCheck
- Aaron Swartz (http://aaronsw.com/) - The Info Network
1999:
- (winner) Daniel Hunter - WebCalendar
- Nathaniel Duca - Escalation
- Nada Amin (http://stuff.mit.edu/people/namin/) - Metis Service
- David Sontag - eZstat
- Ian MacAllen - The New Theatre Guide
- Yiannis Volos - Yiannis Volos Internet Home
- Neal Sidhwaney - Western Computer Science Message Board
- Troy Davis - netscan.org
References
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