ArsDigita Prize

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 (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 and Ara Mahdessian - Dev-Center.com (no longer online)
  • Dan Blanchard (https://dan-blanchard.github.io), 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