[talks] Distinguished Colloquium Speaker Wed. March 10- Barbara Liskov

[Nicole E. Wagenblast]

The Power of Abstraction 
Barbara Liskov
Wednesday, March 10- 4:30pm
Friend Convocation Room


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, how they are supported in programming languages, and some possible areas for future research.