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Barbara Liskov

American Jewish computer scientist and 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient, known for foundational work in data abstraction, programming languages and distributed systems.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Portrait of computer scientist Barbara Liskov in 2010

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Biography

Barbara Jane Liskov, born Huberman in Los Angeles on 7 November 1939, is an American computer scientist. After studying mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, she earned a doctorate in computer science at Stanford and joined MIT, where her research shaped data abstraction, programming languages, fault tolerance and distributed computing. ACM named her the 2008 A.M. Turing Award recipient.

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Barbara Liskov at the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration in 2012.

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First Jewish Woman to Receive the Turing Award

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Barbara Liskov

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27 June 2009

Barbara Liskov is recognized by JWR as the first Jewish woman to receive the Turing Award. The Association for Computing Machinery selected her as the recipient of the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational contributions to programming languages, data abstraction, fault tolerance and distributed computing. Although the award carries the year 2008, ACM announced Liskov as the recipient in March 2009, and she formally received the award at an ACM gathering in San Diego on 27 June 2009. That formal presentation date is therefore used as the Record Value. The full official name, ACM A.M. Turing Award, is retained in the definition and supporting evidence, while the public-facing title is shortened to the widely understood “Turing Award.”

Country represented: United States
Achievement location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Achievement date: 27 June 2009

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