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Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 November 1939
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Sex or gender
- female
- Family name
- Liskov
- Child
- Moses Daniel Liskov
- Field of work
- computer science
- Occupation
- computer scientist, university teacher, engineer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Turing Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Harold Pender Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Programming Languages Achievement Award, Weizmann Women & Science Award, Computer Pioneer Award, honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia, Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award, ACM Fellow, honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award
- academic degree
- doctorate
- doctoral advisor
- John McCarthy
- doctoral student
- Maurice Herlihy, Rivka Ladin, William E. Weihl, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrew C. Myers, Deepak Kapur, Miguel Oom Temudo de Castro, Atul Adya, Umesh Maheshwari, Robert Edward Gruber, Mark Stuart Day, Deborah Jing-Hwa Hwang
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery, National Academy of Sciences
- notable work
- distributed computing
- student of
- John McCarthy
- work location
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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