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Barbara Liskov
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American computer scientist
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Barbara Jane Liskov is a United States computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher. Born in Los Angeles in 1939, she holds a doctorate and has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was educated at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, and studied under doctoral advisor John McCarthy. Her notable work focuses on distributed computing within the field of computer science.
Liskov has received the Turing Award, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the Harold Pender Award, and the Weizmann Women & Science Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the National Academy of Sciences. She speaks English and has supervised doctoral students including Maurice Herlihy.
Her published works include *Program Development in Java*, *La Maîtrise du développement de logiciel*, and *Abstraction and specification in program development*. She is recognized in the Turing Award collection, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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- Works
- 3
Top works
- Program Development in Java
- La Maîtrise du développement de logiciel
- Abstraction and specification in program development
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Key facts
- Born
- Barbara Jane Huberman , ( 1939-11-07 ) November 7, 1939 (age 86) , Los Angeles, California, US
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley ( BA ) Stanford University ( MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Venus ( operating system ) CLU Argus Thor ( object-oriented database ) Liskov substitution principle
- Spouse
- Nathan Liskov ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 )
- Awards
- IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2004) A. M. Turing Award (2008), National Inventors Hall of Fame (2012) Computer Pioneer Award (2018)
- Fields
- Computer science
- Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Thesis
- A Program to Play Chess End Games (1968)
- Doctoral advisor
- John McCarthy
- Doctoral students
- Maurice Herlihy J. Eliot Moss Sanjay Ghemawat Andrew Myers Dan R.K. Ports
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jane
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- distributed computing
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- John McCarthy
- Student of
- John McCarthy
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/~liskov
- Image
- Turing Centenary Celebration Liskov.jpg
- Work location
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Barbara Jane Liskov
- date of birth
- 1939-11-07
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
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Encyclopedic overview
Barbara Jane Liskov (née Huberman; born November 7, 1939) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract data types and the accompanying principle of data abstraction, along with the Liskov substitution principle, which applies these ideas to object-oriented programming, subtyping, and inheritance. Her work was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science.
Liskov is one of the earliest women to have been granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, and the second woman to receive the Turing Award. She is currently an Institute Professor and Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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