Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov · Technology & Engineering
Pioneered data abstraction; Turing Award laureate.
1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
United States (California · Cambridge, Massachusetts — MIT)
Barbara Liskov is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneered data abstraction; Turing Award laureate.
Liskov, whose father was Jewish, became in 1968 one of the first women in the United States to earn a PhD in computer science (Stanford). She designed the CLU language and articulated the principles of data abstraction and the Liskov Substitution Principle, ideas that underpin modern object-oriented and modular programming. She won the Turing Award in 2008.
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Pioneered data abstraction; Turing Award laureate.
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