Barbara Liskov, 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture "The Power of Abstraction"

When you think you're learning all the new and shiny stuff, but a senior knowledgeable lady tells you she invented most of it 50 years ago -_-

I learned HPC in the summer and got to work on Summit/Frontera. It was exciting and fun to do parallel computing. So, I am so glad I found this speech and hearing this perspective. She is a wonderful communicator and she is really clear about how she communicates. I really like her! Giving us a historical perspective, she contextualizes everything really well and how explains piece by piece she got to the problem and what other problems are out there. I like the way she honors all the previous history and work done by other researchers. Man, I want to be like her. She is my hero. The precise in which she can handle new questions that she hasn't thought of before thrown at her by the audience is formidable. She really demonstrates a deep level of understanding of which I have not seen before in real time. When she encounters a problem not in her domain, she is very clear that it's not her domain. She doesn't try to answer with half-knowledge (like so many others feel pressured to do.)

For anyone interested, the slides for this talk, can be found at her website: http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/~liskov/turing-09-5.pdf

This is such a gem

I ADORE READING

thanks for uploading. very good talk.

she is the 'L' of SOLID

This is a talk without slides (missing from video and missing from this web page)

Are there slides for this talk? Video only zooms in on speaker and not the slides and there is no link in the description either.

very good interesting talk

√Thankyou!

Anyone know where to find the 'little black book' she speaks of?

Does anyone know what to take away from this talk? Ive been listening to the first 30 minutes ans its still mostly about where she started and we eons in the future now. I would like to just get the important insights she wants to deliver.

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she a baddie tho