Carnegie Mellon, Tokyo University of Technology honor recipients for work on programming languages, human-computer interaction
Barbara Liskov, an MIT professor known for her work in programming languages and distributed systems, and Scott Klemmer, a Stanford University associate professor who co-directs the Human-Computer Interaction Group there, have won the fourth annual Katayanagi Prizes in Computer Science.
The prizes are presented annually by Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with the Tokyo University of Technology (TUT), and are endowed by Japanese entrepreneur/education advocate Koh Katayanagi (see past winners).
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Liskov, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and head of the programming methodology group in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, will receive the Katayanagi Prize for Research Excellence. The award recognizes an established researcher with a strong record of achievement, and includes a $10,000 honorarium.
“Barbara Liskov has made many fundamental contributions to computer science, including the development of several important programming languages, new theories of object-oriented programming and important algorithms for managing distributed systems,” said Randal E. Bryant, dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. She won the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) 2008 A.M. Turing Award, widely considered computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize (see also: Why there’s no Nobel Prize in Computing).
Klemmer will receive the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize, which honors up and coming researchers, and includes a $5,000 honorarium. According to CMU, “Klemmer’s research group has developed tools for harvesting and synthesizing examples and providing them to programmers and end users in such a way as to empower both audiences to creatively design new user interfaces and software programs.”
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