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The Power of Abstraction--Barbara Liskov's OOPSLA Keynote

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Ajith Ranabahu

October 27, 2009

Barbara Liskov is the Turing Award winner for 2008 for her pioneering work in programming languages. She was the keynote speaker in OOPSLA 2009 and talked about the power of abstraction. An exceptional keynote indeed.

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