Prof. Barbara Liskov
Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Associate Provost for Faculty Equity
Prof. Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM. She received the ACM Turing Award(2009), the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language Achievement Award(2008), the IEEE Von Neumann medal(2004), a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Women Engineers(1996), and was named one of the 50 most important women in science by Discover Magazine(2003). Her research interests include distributed systems, replication algorithms to provide fault-tolerance, programming methodology, and programming languages. Her current research projects include Byzantine-fault-tolerant storage systems, peer-to-peer computing, and support for automatic deployment of software upgrades in large-scale distributed systems.