Barbara Liskov
Computer Scientist, Liskov Substitution Principle
Born
November 7th, 1939
86 years ago
Category
Scientists & Innovators
Country
United States
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An American computer scientist and academic contributed significantly to the field of computer science, particularly in programming language design, distributed computing, and software engineering. Developed the Liskov Substitution Principle, a fundamental concept in object-oriented programming that describes how objects of a superclass should be replaceable with objects of a subclass without affecting the correctness of the program. Served as a professor at MIT and co-founded the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Authored numerous influential papers throughout an academic career.
Developed the Liskov Substitution Principle
Co-founded the MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory
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