Barbara Liskov
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Liskov in 2010.
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| Born | Barbara Jane Huberman November 7, 1939 Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Thesis | A Program to Play Chess End Games (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | John McCarthy |
| Doctoral students | Atul Adya, Sameer Ajmani, Russel Atkinson, Valdis Berzins, Toby Bloom, Winnie Cheng, Sheng-Yang Chiu, James Cowling, Mark Day, Sanjay Ghemawat, Robert Gruber, Maurice Herlihy, Deborah Hwang, Deepak Kapur, Rivka Ladin, Mark Laventhal, Ben Leong, Umesh Maheshwari, J. Eliot Moss, Andrew C. Myers, Brian Oki, Miguel Oom Temudo de Castro, Dan Ports, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Justin Schaffert, David Andrew Schultz, Alan Snyder, Benjamin Vandiver, William Weihl, Evan |
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Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ford Professor of Engineering in its School of Engineering's electrical engineering and computer science department. She was one of the first women to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States and is a Turing award winner who developed the Liskov substitution principle.
Liskov was born November 7, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, the eldest of Jane (née Dickhoff) and Moses Huberman's four children. She earned her BA in mathematics with a minor in physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. In her classes she had one other female classmate, the rest were male. After she graduated she applied to graduate mathematics programs at Berkeley and Princeton. At the time Princeton was not accepting female students in mathematics. She was accepted at Berkeley but instead of studying she moved to Boston and began working at Mitre Corporation. It was there that she became interested in computers and programming. She worked at Mitre for one year before taking a programming job at Harvard where she worked on language translation.
She then decided to go back to school and applied again to Berkeley, but also to Stanford and Harvard. In 1968 she became one of the first women in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department when she was awarded her degree from Stanford University. At Stanford she worked with John McCarthy and was supported to work in artificial intelligence. The topic of her Ph.D. thesis was a computer program to play chess endgames.
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