ArsDigita Prize

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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 - Ensophic
Nathan Faber - Westport Learning Network
Omar Fawzy - Quantum Mechanics Made Simple
Heather Lawver - The Daily Prophet & Calculo
Fabian Yamaguchi - The Young Programmer's Network

2000:

(individual winner) Ara Anjargolian - SecondSaver.com
(team winners) Arthur Chaparyan (http://chaparyan.com/) and Ara Mahdessian - Dev-Center.com (no longer online)
Dan Blanchard, 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 - 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

[Archive of the 2001 ArsDigita Prize]

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