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Barbara Liskov (born 1939-11-07 as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing.

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Alternative Names: Barbara Jane Huberman • Barbara Jane Liskov • Barbara Jane Huberman Liskov

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Data abstractions provide the same benefits as procedures, but for data. Recall that the main idea is to separate what an abstraction is from how it is implemented so that implementations of the same abstraction can be substituted freely.

a key figure in the development of applications that run on distributed collections of computers

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