Turing Award Winner Barbara Liskov

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03/13/2009

Mar. 13, 2009

Turing Award Winner Barbara Liskov

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MIT professor Barbara Liskov has won the 2008 Turing Award, what's been called the Nobel Prize of computing research. Professor Liskov heads the Programming Methodology Group in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The award, offered by the Association for Computing Machinery, is for "contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing." Liskov was also the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. from a Computer Science department. We'll talk with her.

Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer

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Barbara Liskov
Institute Professor

Head, Programming Methodology Group

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mar. 13, 2009