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MIT professor Barbara Liskov has won the A.M. Turing Award for her work designing computer programming languages.
Liskov is the second woman to win the $250,000 award, given by the Association for Computing Machinery. She won the award for work on making software more reliable, consistent and resistant to errors and hacking, according to MIT. Liskov was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in computer science.
Liskov is the head of the Programming Methodology Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where she has worked since 1972. Last year, she was named an Institute Professor, the highest honor awarded to an MIT faculty member.
The Turing Award is named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing, who helped the Allies crack Nazi code during World War II and is considered one of the founders of artificial intelligence research. Liskov will formally receive the award on June 27 in San Diego.
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