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Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award
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by Jordan Yerman | March 10, 2009 at 02:23 pm
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Dr. Barbara Liskov, the first American woman to earn a Ph.D in computer science, has won the AM Turing Award, which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for computer science.
How good is Liskov at this whole computer thing?
Well, let's just say that she doesn't mistake the DVD drive for a cup holder...
Dr. Liskov's earliest work brought the concept of data abstraction into a central role in software engineering, making development and maintenance a much easier proposition; she created the CLU proto-OOP programming language as part of her teaching workload at MIT in 1974 and 1975. Her later work on distributed system design makes possible scalable systems with millions of concurrent users -- a crucial component of the very largest Web sites (think search engines). Currently, she's pondering ways of improving system fault tolerance, especially as it relates to arbitrary failures, including such problems as errors and intrusions.
Yeah, she's been at the forefront of software design that made possible the Internet as we know it.
I wonder if she takes tech-support calls. My cup-holder won't go back into the machine.
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A. Tranat 14:35 on March 10th, 2009
Dr. Liskov will instruct one of her less developed robots to help ya' ... :-)
at 15:50 on March 10th, 2009
Barbara just called me and told me to help you, Jordan. Now here's what you do:
LOL :)
at 17:41 on March 10th, 2009
I could use her help here as well. :)