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Barbara Liskov

1939 - Today

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Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939, as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract data types and the accompanying principle of data abstraction, along with the Liskov substitution principle, which applies these ideas to object-oriented programming, subtyping, and inheritance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Liskov has received more than 584,408 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Barbara Liskov is the 29th most popular computer scientist (up from 32nd in 2019), the 2,049th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,332nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Barbara Liskov ranks 29 out of 245Before her are Alan Kay, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Naur, Kevin Mitnick, and Ward Cunningham. After her are Tony Hoare, Allen Newell, Satoshi Nakamoto, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Ken Kutaragi, and Leonard Kleinrock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Barbara Liskov ranks 107Before her are Michael Moorcock, Lee Majors, Krzysztof Zanussi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, and Velibor Vasović. After her are Dusty Springfield, Salomé, Concha Velasco, Tarcisio Burgnich, Sante Gaiardoni, and Guntis Ulmanis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Liskov ranks 2,049 out of 20,380Before her are Venus Williams (1980), Larry Silverstein (1931), Eleanor Parker (1922), Irving Thalberg (1899), Ward Cunningham (1949), and Tina Aumont (1946). After her are Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Ry Cooder (1947), Tim Allen (1953), King Vidor (1894), Warren Christopher (1925), and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Barbara Liskov ranks 19Before her are Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Alan Kay (1940), Larry Page (1973), Kevin Mitnick (1963), and Ward Cunningham (1949). After her are Allen Newell (1927), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Jef Raskin (1943), Alan Perlis (1922), Frances E. Allen (1932), and Edmund M. Clarke (1945).