Barbara Liskov Wins Katayanagi Prize in Computer Science

Barbara Liskov, Institute Professor and director of the programming methodology group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, was awarded the Katayanagi Prize for Research Excellence in Computer Science. The prize, established by an endowed fund set up by Japanese entrepreneur Koh Katayanagi, is administered by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in conjunction with the Tokyo University of Technology. The prize includes a $10,000 cash award.

Professor Liskov is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University.