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Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939, as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing.
Jul 16, 2021 · Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor and head of the Programming Methodology Group. Liskov's research interests lie in programming methodology, programming languages and systems, and distributed computing.
Barbara Liskov. Institute Professor. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Programming Methodology Group. 32 Vassar St. 32-G942.
Liskov is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT. She leads the Programming Methodology Group at MIT, with a current research focus in Byzantine fault tolerance and distributed computing.
Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American computer scientist who won the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for her “pioneering work in the design of computer programming languages .”
CSAIL Professor Barbara Liskov is widely known for her groundbreaking work on data abstraction, programming languages, and programming systems. She first discovered her interest in programming in the 1960’s.
Nov 20, 2019 · Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.
Jul 1, 2024 · Barbara Liskov is an American computer scientist and MIT Institute Professor who pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She developed key concepts in programming languages, including the notions of data abstraction, polymorphism, and modularity.
Institute Professor Barbara Liskov has won the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in science and engineering, for her pioneering work in the design of computer programming languages.
Barbara Liskov, Turing Award winner and one of the first women to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, shares the story of "the aha moment" when she thought of using object-oriented programming as a novel method for data abstraction in computing.
