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What got Barbara Liskov into distributed computing?

Answered from Barbara Liskov (Turing Award): How the Liskov Substitution Principle Got Its Name · Ryan Peterman · 2026-10-28

Barbara Liskov says she read a paper by Bob Kahn, whom she credits with Vint Cerf as a founder of the internet, describing his dream of programs made of pieces on different computers linked by a network. Nobody knew how to build such programs, and she was looking for a new problem, so she moved into the field.

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