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Barbara Liskov

Barbara Liskov

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Computer Science

D-Index
83
Citations
34838
World Ranking
890
National Ranking
485

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2008 - A. M. Turing Award For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing.
  • 2004 - IEEE John von Neumann Medal “For fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems.”
  • 1996 - ACM Fellow For pioneering contributions in the fields of programming methodology, programming languages, and distributed systems.
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For pioneering contributions to programming languages, software methodology, and distributed operating systems.

Overview

Barbara Liskov is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus primarily within computer science. Their work spans several subfields, including computer networks and communications, information systems, artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, and computational theory and mathematics.

Their main topics of research cover distributed systems and fault tolerance, blockchain technology applications and security, cryptography and data security, advanced data storage technologies, cloud computing and resource management, cognitive functions and memory, and advanced database systems and queries.

Recent publications by Barbara Liskov include:

  • "On HTLC-Based Protocols for Multi-Party Cross-Chain Swaps," 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Cross-chain deals and adversarial commerce," 2021, The VLDB Journal
  • "Opportunities for optimism in contended main-memory multicore transactions," 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Opportunities for optimism in contended main-memory multicore transactions," 2022, The VLDB Journal
  • "Reflections on a Career in Computer Science," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data

Frequent co-authors in their research include Liuba Shrira, Maurice Herlihy, Yihe Huang, William Qian, and Eddie Kohler.

Barbara Liskov has published in venues such as The VLDB Journal, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl), Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, and the Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data.

The scientist has been recognized with several awards over the course of their career, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2012
  • A. M. Turing Award, 2008, for contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing
  • IEEE John von Neumann Medal, 2004, for fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems
  • ACM Fellow, 1996, for pioneering contributions in programming methodology, programming languages, and distributed systems
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1988, for pioneering contributions to programming languages, software methodology, and distributed operating systems

Best Publications

  • Practical Byzantine fault tolerance

    Miguel Castro;Barbara Liskov

  • Practical byzantine fault tolerance and proactive recovery

    Miguel Castro;Barbara Liskov

  • A behavioral notion of subtyping

    Barbara H. Liskov;Jeannette M. Wing

  • Programming with abstract data types

    Barbara Liskov;Stephen Zilles

  • Abstraction mechanisms in CLU

    Barbara Liskov;Alan Snyder;Russell Atkinson;Craig Schaffert

  • Abstraction and Specification in Program Development

    Barbara Liskov;John Guttag

  • Guardians and actions: linguistic support for robust, distributed programs

    Barbara Liskov;Robert Scheifler

  • Protecting privacy using the decentralized label model

    Andrew C. Myers;Barbara Liskov

  • A decentralized model for information flow control

    Andrew C. Myers;Barbara Liskov

  • Distributed programming in Argus

    Barbara Liskov

  • Providing high availability using lazy replication

    Rivka Ladin;Barbara Liskov;Liuba Shrira;Sanjay Ghemawat

  • Viewstamped Replication: A New Primary Copy Method to Support Highly-Available Distributed Systems

    Brian M. Oki;Barbara H. Liskov

  • Specification techniques for data abstractions

    Barbara Liskov;Stephen Zilles

  • Speedy transactions in multicore in-memory databases

    Stephen Tu;Wenting Zheng;Eddie Kohler;Barbara Liskov

  • High availability in DHTs: erasure coding vs. replication

    Rodrigo Rodrigues;Barbara Liskov

  • Promises: linguistic support for efficient asynchronous procedure calls in distributed systems

    B. Liskov;L. Shrira

  • Replication in the harp file system

    Barbara Liskov;Sanjay Ghemawat;Robert Gruber;Paul Johnson

  • Efficient routing for peer-to-peer overlays

    Anjali Gupta;Barbara Liskov;Rodrigo Rodrigues

  • HQ replication: a hybrid quorum protocol for byzantine fault tolerance

    James Cowling;Daniel Myers;Barbara Liskov;Rodrigo Rodrigues

  • Data Abstraction and Hierarchy

    Barbara Liskov

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodrigo Rodrigues
Rodrigo Rodrigues Instituto Superior Técnico
Miguel Castro
Miguel Castro Microsoft (United States)
Andrew C. Myers
Andrew C. Myers Cornell University
Atul Adya
Atul Adya Google (United States)
Sanjay Ghemawat
Sanjay Ghemawat Google (United States)
Jeannette M. Wing
Jeannette M. Wing Columbia University
Eddie Kohler
Eddie Kohler Harvard University
William E. Weihl
William E. Weihl ClimateVoice
Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy Brown University

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