Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award - Definition and Overview

The "Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award" (formerly the SoftQuad Award for Excellence) is a prize awarded annually by the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation. According to the foundation, it is given "to an individual who has contributed, through a lifetime of effort, to the care and feeding of the global information infrastructure." The award is accompanied by a cash payout of $10,000. Winners:

• 19?? Vint Cerf
• 19?? Douglas Engelbart
• 1997 Gregg Vanderheiden [1] (http://www.resna.org/sigs/sig11/archive/yuri.htm)
• 1998 Ted Nelson
• 1999 Richard Stallman [2] (http://www.ahref.com/guides/industry/199907/0727piou2.html)

External link

Memories of Yuri Rubinsky (http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/yuriMemColl.html)

Example Usage of Rubinsky