ACM has just announced that Barbara Liskov is the winner of this year's A.M. Turing Award, widely considered to be "the Nobel Prize of computing."
I am especially pleased at this award. Barbara is not only a wonderful person, she is the one who introduced me to the concept of abstract data types, and her student, Steve Zilles, introduced me to algebraic specifications. These ideas had a major effect on my professional career.
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Great news! She deserved it years ago.
ReplyDeleteYes, as a student I had to present one of her papers on abstract data types to our seminar group. Now we live and breathe ADTs, so the award is spot on.
I was so happy to finally meet her in person at an ICSE.
Way to go, Barb!!