Liuba Shrira
Computer scientist
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Liuba Shrira is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University, whose research interests primarily involve distributed systems.[1] Shrira is accredited with having coined the phrase "promise" when referring to the completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation and its resulting value for the JavaScript programming language[2]
Education
Career
She is affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Previously, she was a researcher in the MIT Programming Methodology Group (1986–1997), a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research (2004–2005),[1] and a visiting professor at Technion (2010–2011).[3]
Shrira was one of the founding members of the Systers mailing list for women in computing.[4]
Awards and honors
She is an ACM Distinguished Member[1][5] and a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Selected publications
- Barbara Liskov; Sanjay Ghemawat; Robert Gruber; Paul Johnson; Liuba Shrira; Michael Williams (1991). "Replication in the Harp File System". 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.[6]
- Rivka Ladin; Barbara Liskov; Liuba Shrira; Sanjay Ghemawat (1992). "Providing high availability using lazy replication". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.[7]
- Chandrasekhar Boyapati; Barbara Liskov; Liuba Shrira (2003). "Ownership Types for Object Encapsulation". ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.[6]
