Barbara Liskov has won the 2008 Turing Award!you have probably already seen in email or on ***SORELLE***'s BLOG Its already in Wikipedia's list of Turing Award winners. So why am I bothering to blog about it? Because I've already gotten 5 emails asking why I haven't blogged on it. Besides, there may be someone who didn't know it so this blog is doing that person a service. Below is an edited version of what ACM send me (and probably you) about this.
ACM has named Barbara Liskov the recipient of the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award for her contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing.
Liskov revolutionized the programming field with groundbreaking research that underpins virtually every modern computer application for both consumers and businesses. Her achievements in programming language design have made software more reliable and easier to maintain. They are now the basis of every important programming language since 1975, including Ada, C++, Java, and C#.
Liskov heads the Programming Methodology Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where she has conducted research and has been a professor since 1972.
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is ACM's most prestigious technical award. It recognizes contributions of lasting and major technical importance, and honors individuals whose work has advanced the field of computing. First presented in 1966, and named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing, the Turing Award is widely considered to be the Nobel Prize in Computing. It carries a $250,000 prize, with financial support provided by Intel Corporation and Google Inc.
For more on THIS YEARS Award winner see the ACM Press Release.
For more on THE TURING AWARD see the Wikipedia Entry which also includes a list of all of the winners.