Barbara Liskov on Programming, Career, and the Future

Barbara Liskov (http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/~liskov) is the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT's http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and head of its Programming Methodology Group. She has led several major projects, including the design and implementation of CLU, the first language to support data abstraction; Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs; and Thor, an object-oriented database system that provides transactional access to persistent, highly available objects in wide-scale distributed environments. She recently received the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for 2004 for her "fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems."