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Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award

Posted by kdawson on from the getting-a-clu dept.

jonniee writes "MIT Professor Barbara Liskov has been granted the ACM's Turing Award. Liskov, the first US woman to earn a PhD in computer science, was recognized for helping make software more reliable, consistent and resistant to errors and hacking. She is only the second woman to receive the honor, which carries a $250,000 purse and is often described as the 'Nobel Prize in computing.'"

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  1. LSP it's not a guideline, it's a rule. by refactored · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Sadly, too many people still think it's a guideline, not a rule. Sorry, if your code violates the LSP, you've got a bug, it just hasn't bitten you yet.

    She deserves recognition for the vast number of latent defects she has effectively removed from the worlds software with the LSP alone, I'm glad she got the award.

  2. More women in the old days by Simian+Road · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apparently there were far more women in computing in "the old days". The dominance of the male geeks is a relatively recent phenomenon.