March 28, 2009 2:00 am

2008 ACM Turing Award

ACM has named Barbara Liskov as the winner of the 2008 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.”

• More details in the press release.
• Interview with Barbara Liskov.
• Liskov substitution principle.