Turing Award again given to a woman

The most prestigious Turing Award in the field of computer science this year was again given to a woman. Again, because it happened a second time in the last three years. That is, recently the best programmers and computer scientists of the world are not men, but women.

This year the prize was awarded to Barbara Liskov (Guberman), professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Barbara Liskov led the development of such programming languages ​​as CLU and Argus in the 1970s and 80s, as well as the object-oriented database management system Thor. Together with Jennet Wing, Liskov developed in 1987 the principle of substitution - the concept of defining a subtype, a very important element in the logic of object-oriented programming languages. Her inventions became the basis for developing C ++, Java and C # languages. By the way, she is the first woman in the United States to receive a doctorate in computer science (back in 1968).

“Whenever you exchange email with a friend, check a bank account on the Internet or run a Google search, you use the fruits of her research,” said MIT Vice-Rector Rafael Rafe, commenting on the jury’s decision.
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via MIT News