Barbara Liskov

Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov
	Liskov in 2010
Born	Barbara Jane Huberman; November 7, 1939; Los Angeles, California, US
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (BA); Stanford University (PhD);
Known for	Venus (operating system); CLU; Argus; Thor (object-oriented database); Liskov substitution principle;
Spouse	Nathan Liskov (1970–)
Children	1
Awards	IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2004); A. M. Turing Award (2008); Computer Pioneer Award (2018);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	A Program to Play Chess End Games (1968)
Doctoral advisor	John McCarthy
Doctoral students	Maurice Herlihy; J. Eliot Moss; Sanjay Ghemawat;

Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939, as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract data types and the accompanying principle of data abstraction, along with the Liskov substitution principle, which applies these ideas to object-oriented programming, subtyping, and inheritance. Her work was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science.

Liskov is one of the earliest women to have been granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, and the second woman to receive the Turing award. She is currently an Institute Professor and Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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