Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility was established in 1987 in honor of Norbert Wiener to recognize contributions by computer professionals to socially responsible use of computers. It was awarded annually by CPSR, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, until that organization disbanded in 2013.
Winners
- 1987: David Parnas
- 1988: Joseph Weizenbaum
- 1989: Daniel McCracken
- 1990: Kristen Nygaard
- 1991: Severo Ornstein and Laura Gould
- 1992: Barbara Simons
- 1993: Institute for Global Communications
- 1994: Antonia Stone
- 1995: Tom Grundner
- 1996: Phil Zimmermann
- 1997: Peter Neumann
- 1998: Internet Engineering Task Force
- 1999: The Free Software & Open Source Movements
- 2000: Marc Rotenberg
- 2001: Nira Schwartz and Theodore Postol
- 2002: Karl Auerbach
- 2003: Mitch Kapor
- 2004: Barry Steinhardt
- 2005: Douglas Engelbart
- 2008: Bruce Schneier
- 2013: Gary Chapman
There is also a Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics awarded by American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and a Norbert Wiener Award granted by the journal Kybernetes.
See also
External links
- Official website
- List of winners
- Speech introducing the award
- Documentary film about Norbert Wiener Award winner, Joseph Weizenbaum ( "Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work." )
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