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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.
May 1, 2024 · 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.”
Barbara Liskov, née Barbara Jane Huberman, was born on November 7, 1939, in California. She earned her BA in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. Rather than go directly to graduate school, she took a job at the Mitre Corporation where she learned that she was a natural at computer programming.
Sep 16, 2021 · Liskov is keen to give credit to her students Russ Atkinson, Alan Snyder and Craig Schaffert as well as Stephen Zilles, who was also at MIT and worked with her in 1973 refining the concepts that underlay CLU.
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.
