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Barbara Liskov

1939 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Liskov is the 7th most popular computer scientist (up from 29th in 2019), the 778th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,049th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Barbara Liskov ranks 7 out of 245. Before her are Alan Turing, Richard Stallman, Grace Hopper, Satoshi Nakamoto, Tim Berners-Lee, and John McCarthy. After her are Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geoffrey Hinton, and Niklaus Wirth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Barbara Liskov ranks 30. Before her are Jean-Marie Lehn, Jackie Stewart, Romano Prodi, Michèle Mercier, Harry Kroto, and Laurent-Désiré Kabila. After her are John Cleese, George Lazenby, Junko Tabei, F. Murray Abraham, Sidney Altman, and Clay Regazzoni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Liskov ranks 778 out of 20,380. Before her are Joanne Woodward (1930), Roy Sullivan (1912), Henry Molaison (1926), Florence Griffith Joyner (1959), Robert W. Holley (1922), and Carrie Fisher (1956). After her are Michael DeBakey (1908), Albert Ellis (1913), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), Rod Steiger (1925), Howard Hawks (1896), and James Ivory (1928).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Barbara Liskov ranks 4. Before her are Richard Stallman (1953), Grace Hopper (1906), and John McCarthy (1927). After her are Dennis Ritchie (1941), Frances E. Allen (1932), Donald Knuth (1938), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944).

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