[PL-sem-jr] Fwd: [MIT-PL] PL Seminar 10/15/18: The Power of Abstraction, Barbara Liskov

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

Fellow Juniors,

Julia and I are going to listen to Barbara Liskov (see forwarded details
below).

I would be happy if we could move next PL-Junior-sem in MIT and get
together at that talk. What do you think?

--
Best, Artem

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From: Michael Carbin <mcarbin at csail.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 16:51
Subject: [MIT-PL] PL Seminar 10/15/18: The Power of Abstraction, Barbara
Liskov
To: <pl at lists.csail.mit.edu>, <g7 at csail.mit.edu>, <g8 at csail.mit.edu>, <
g9 at csail.mit.edu>


Hi Everyone!

I'm happy to announce that Barbara will speak about the history of the
abstractions we have in present-day programming languages for the next PL
Seminar on Monday.

Date: Monday, October 15, 2018
Location: 32-D463 (Star)
Time:  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Title: The power of abstraction

Abstract: Abstraction is at the center of much work in Computer Science.  It
encompasses finding the right interface for a system as well as
finding an effective design for a system implementation.  Furthermore,
abstraction is the basis for program construction, allowing programs
to be built in a modular fashion.  This talk will discuss how the
abstraction mechanisms we use today came to be and how they are
supported in programming languages.


Bio: Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor at MIT. She is a fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and
the National Inventors Hall of Fame. She has received numerous awards
including the ACM Turing Award, the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language
Achievement Award, the IEEE Von Neumann medal, and a lifetime
achievement award from the Society of Women Engineers.  Her research
interests include parallel and distributed systems, programming
methodology, and programming languages.


-- 
Michael Carbin | Assistant Professor | MIT EECS & CSAIL
http://people.csail.mit.edu/mcarbin
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