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This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 2020 to the present. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see the history of computing.
Significant events in computing include events relating directly or indirectly to software, hardware and wetware. Excluded (except in instances of significant functional overlap) are:
Currently excluded are:
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Award / challenge | Year | Recipient/s / winner/s | Description |
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FSF Free Software Awards – Advancement of Free Software award | 2020 | Bradley M. Kuhn | For his work in enforcing the GNU General Public License (GPL) and promoting copyleft through his position at Software Freedom Conservancy.[458][459] |
FSF Free Software Awards – Advancement of Free Software award | 2021 | Paul Eggert | A computer scientist who teaches in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, contributor to the GNU operating system for over thirty years and current maintainer of the Time Zone Database.[460][461][462] |
FSF Free Software Awards – Social benefit award | 2020 | CiviCRM | Free program that nonprofit organizations around the world use to manage their mailings and contact databases[458][459] |
FSF Free Software Awards – Social benefit award | 2021 | SecuRepairs | An association of information security experts who support the right to repair[460][461][462] |
FSF Free Software Awards – Award for outstanding new Free Software contributor | 2020 | Alyssa Rosenzweig | Leads the Panfrost project,[463] a project to reverse engineer and implement a free driver for the Mali series of graphics processing units (GPUs) used on a wide variety of single-board computers and mobile phones.[458][459] |
FSF Free Software Awards – Award for outstanding new Free Software contributor | 2021 | Protesilaos Stavrou | A philosopher who since 2019 has become a mainstay of the GNU Emacs community through his blog posts, conference talks, livestreams, and code contributions.[460][461][462] |
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