Liuba Shrira is a professor of

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, whose research interests primarily involve

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. 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

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programming language Shrira received her

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from Technion. She is affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Previously, she was a researcher in the

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Programming Methodology Group (1986–1997), a visiting researcher at

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(2004–2005), and a visiting professor at Technion (2010–2011). She is a member of the

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(ACM), which has recognized her as
Distinguished Scientist in 2009
and the

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. Shrira was one of the founding members of the Systers mailing list for women in computing.

Selected publications

Some of Liuba Shrira's publications include: *

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; Sanjay Ghemawat; Robert Gruber; Paul Johnson; Liuba Shrira; Michael Williams (1991). "Replication in the Harp File System". ''13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.'' * Rivka Ladin; Barbara Liskov; Liuba Shrira; Sanjay Ghemawat (1992). "Providing high availability using lazy replication". ''ACM Transactions on Computer Systems''. * Chandrasekhar Boyapati; Barbara Liskov; Liuba Shrira (2003). "Ownership Types for Object Encapsulation". ''ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages''.

References

External links

Liuba Shrira's homepage

Google Tech Talk: Split Snapshots: A New Approach to Old State Storage

Microsoft Research Talk: ACID Objects and Modularity in the Cloud

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shrira, Liuba American computer scientists Living people American women computer scientists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women