Who's Who

 Barbara Liskov 

Summary: This woman is an American computer scientist and a professor. She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches in the electrical engineering and computer science department. Some awards she has won have been the Tutoring Award and IEEE John vonNeumann Medal. She was one of the first woman to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States and is who developed the Liskov substitution principle. She is now currently the Ford Professor of  Engineering in MIT. She has helped contribute to practical and theoretical findings of programming language and system designing, especially in data abstraction, distributed computing, and fault tolerance. 

Biographical Sketch: She was born on November 7, 1939. She was born in Los Angeles, California and is currently 78 years old. She earned her BA in the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. Once graduated she began working at Mike Corporation instead of studying at Berkeley. 




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