The ArsDigita Prize, sponsored by ArsDigita

ArsDigita

ArsDigita was a web development company cofounded by Philip Greenspun, Tracy Adams, Ben Adida, Eve Andersson, Olin Shivers, Aure Prochazka, and Jin Choi and was started in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the mid-1990s...

 and Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun is a semi-retired American computer scientist, educator, and early Internet entrepreneur who was a pioneer in developing online communities.-Biography:...

, 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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

, seats at a two-day seminar taught by Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun is a semi-retired American computer scientist, educator, and early Internet entrepreneur who was a pioneer in developing online communities.-Biography:...

, lunch with David D. Clark

David D. Clark

David Dana Clark is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and Engineer's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on the I/O architecture of Multics under Jerry...

, Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...

 and Michael Dertouzos, dinner with Hal Abelson

Hal Abelson

Harold Abelson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and is a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation....

 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 (http://www.cornerblue.com/) and Ara Mahdessian - Dev-Center.com (no longer online)
  • Dan Blanchard, Greg Moyer and Andrew Widdowson - OpenWeasel Portal Toolkit
• Emily Boyd - Matmice
  Matmice
  MatMice was a free invite-only social networking website aimed at children and teenagers, founded by three sisters in 2000. Until February 2007, the website based itself on free webpages for children, with basic tools and HTML support, and 1,758,660 members joined, hundreds joining each day.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
  Aaron Swartz
  Aaron Swartz is an American programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. He is best known in programming circles for co-authoring the RSS 1.0 specification...
  
  (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