BARBARA LISKOV
\bˈɑːbəɹə lˈɪskɒv], \bˈɑːbəɹə lˈɪskɒv], \b_ˈɑː_b_ə_ɹ_ə l_ˈɪ_s_k_ɒ_v]\
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Professor Barbara Liskov was the first US woman to beawarded a PhD in computing, and her innovations can be foundin every modern programming language. She currently (2009)heads the Programming Methodology Group at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology.Professor Liskov's design innovations have, over the decades,made software more reliable and easier to maintain. She hasinvented two computer progamming languages: CLU, anobject-orientated language, and Argus, a distributedprogramming language. Liskov's research forms the basis ofmodern programming languages such as Java, C# and C++.One of the biggest impacts of her work came from hercontributions to the use of data abstraction, a method fororganising complex programs. See Liskov substitutionprinciple.In June 2009 she will receive the A. M. Turing Award.Barbara Liskov home (http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/~liskov/).
By Denis Howe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).