| Coordinates | 37°1′5″N175°51′45″N |
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| Name | Barbara Liskov |
| Imagesize | 192 x 160 |
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| Nationality | American |
| Field | Computer science |
| Work institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | John McCarthy |
| Prizes | IEEE John von Neumann Medal, A. M. Turing Award |
Liskov has led many significant projects, including the Venus operating system, a small, low-cost and interactive timesharing system; the design and implementation of CLU; Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs and to demonstrate the technique of promise pipelining; and Thor, an object-oriented database system. With Jeannette Wing, she developed a particular definition of subtyping, commonly known as the Liskov substitution principle. She leads the Programming Methodology Group at MIT, with a current research focus in Byzantine fault tolerance and distributed computing.
Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2004 she won the John 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.
Liskov received the 2008 Turing Award from the ACM for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. Specifically, Liskov developed two programming languages, CLU in the 1970s and Argus in the 1980s.
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