- Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov (born Barbara Jane Huberman, 1939) is a computer scientist. She is currently the Ford
Professor ofEngineering in the Electrical Engineering andComputer Science department and anInstitute Professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology . She earned her BA in mathematics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1961, and became the first woman in theUnited States to be awarded aPh.D. from a computer science department, in 1968 fromStanford University . [cite web|url=http://www.engineergirl.org/?id=3046|title=Barbara Liskov -- Engineergirl|accessdate=2007-09-06 Profile from the National Academies of Engineering.] The topic of her Ph.D. thesis was a computer program to play chess end games. [*Citation|last=Huberman (Liskov)|first=Barbara Jane|title=A program to play chess end games|year=1968|publisher=Stanford University Department of Computer Science, Technical Report CS 106, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Project Memo AI-65]Barbara Liskov has led many significant projects, including the design and implementation of CLU, the first
programming language to supportdata abstraction ; Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs; and Thor, anobject-oriented database system. WithJeannette Wing , she developed a particular definition of subtyping, commonly known as theLiskov substitution principle . She leads theProgramming Methodology Group atMIT , with a current research focus inByzantine Fault Tolerance anddistributed computing .Professor Liskov is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and of theAssociation for Computing Machinery . In 2004 she won theJohn von Neumann Medal for "fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems". She is the author of three books and over a hundred technical papers.ee also
*
Women in computing References
External links
* [http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/~liskov/ Prof. Liskov's home page]
* [http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/ Programming Methodology Group]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.