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Barbara Liskov
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American computer scientist
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Barbara Jane Liskov is an American computer scientist, university teacher, and engineer. Born in Los Angeles on November 7, 1939, she holds a doctorate and was educated at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral advisor was John McCarthy. Liskov works in the field of computer science, with notable work in distributed computing. She is employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also serves as a university teacher.
Liskov has received several awards, including 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. Her doctoral student includes Maurice Herlihy.
Among her published works are *Program Development in Java*, *La Maîtrise du développement de logiciel*, and *Abstraction and specification in program development*. She has delivered keynote addresses, such as one on data abstraction and hierarchy at OOPSLA '87.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Program Development in Java
- La Maîtrise du développement de logiciel
- Abstraction and specification in program development
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1930-06-09
- Active to
- 1997-11-24
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,721x
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity
· 2003 · cited 17,592x
- Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation
· 2010 · cited 13,971x
- Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq
· 2008 · cited 11,971x
- The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
· 2001 · cited 10,675x
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Quotes
- “Data abstractions provide the same benefits as procedures, but for data. Recall that the main idea is to separate what an abstraction is from how it is implemented so that implementations of the same abstraction can be substituted freely.”
- “/ Liskov, Barbara H.. “Keynote address - data abstraction and hierarchy.” OOPSLA '87 (1987).”
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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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Described at
About: Barbara Liskov
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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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- WikiProject Mathematics
- described at URL
- dbpedia.org/resource/Barbara_Liskov
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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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