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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. Translation for Americans by thewils · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That stuff she's talking about - "Toilet Paper", it's the same stuff you guys, for some weird reason, call "Bathroom Tissue".

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  2. Re:oblig. Obviously, someone envied her... by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LESKO!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lesko

    Must've gone on an all-out CRAYZE to sub-do her...

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  3. That's a mutilated female! by HornWumpus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not a man.

    Men have a X and a Y chromosome (sometimes an extra X or Y). Women have no Y chromosome.

    How about we agree that men have the right to bear children even though they can't, not having a womb, which is no ones fault, not even the Romans.

    We can also agree that women have the right to study CS, even though most can't, being bad a math, which is no ones fault, not even the Republicans.

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  4. Re:1968 by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahh yes. The "different perspective" argument. Yeah, I had to take that class too. The one where diversity really helps us all because we get "different perspectives".

    You, however, seem to have taken that claptrap seriously. You get "different perspectives" in computing because two people have different backgrounds and interests, not because of skin color differences or hormonal/chromosomal differences.

    If I'm running a hip marketing company or writing sitcoms you bet your ass I want men and women, and people of different races. Writing software - those things are meaningless.