2016: Malkia Cyril, Max Schrems, Authors of Keys Under Doormats, and Senators Mark Leno and Joel Anderson
2015: Caspar Bowden, The Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra
2014: Trevor Paglin, Frank LaRue, Zoe Lofgren
2013: Aaron Swartz, James Love, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras
2012: Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, Jérémie Zimmerman, the Tor Project
2011: Ron Wyden, Ian Goldberg, Nawaat.org
2010: Steven Aftergood, James Boyle, Pamela Jones and the Groklaw Website, Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru
2009: Limor "Ladyada" Fried, Harri Hursti, Carl Malamud
2008: The Mozilla Foundation and Mitchell Baker, Michael Geist, Mark Klein
2007: Yochai Benkler, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Schneier
2006: Craigslist, Gigi Sohn, Jimmy Wales
2005: Mitch Kapor, Edward Felten, Patrick Ball
2004: Kim Alexander, David Dill, Aviel Rubin
2003: Amy Goodman, Eben Moglen, David Sobel
2002: Dan Gillmor, Beth Givens, Jon Johansen and Writers of DeCSS
2001: Bruce Ennis, Seth Finkelstein, Stephanie Perrin
2000: "Librarians Everywhere," Tim Berners-Lee, Phil Agre
1999: Jon Postel, Drazen Pantic, Simon Davies
1998: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Barbara Simons
1997: Hedy Lamarr, Johan Helsingius, Marc Rotenberg
1996: Robert Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and Matthew Blaze
1995: Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, Willis Ware
1994: Ivan Sutherland, Bill Atkinson, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, the WELL
1993: Paul Baran, Vinton Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes, the USENET software developers
1992: Douglas C. Engelbart, Robert Kahn, Jim Warren, Tom Jennings, Andrzej Smereczynski
