[News]Barbara Liskov

做研究的人都是喜欢解决问题的人。CACM中写了一篇文章报导Barbara Liskov：Liskov's Creative Joy。

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The greatest joy Barbara Liskov has experienced in her distinguished career has not been the results of her influential work but the creative process itself. "It's incredibly exciting," she says, "to be thinking about a problem and suddenly see a way to solve it that you hadn't thought of before, and that makes a lot of other problems go away." Creative activity is what makes research so interesting, she says, and "is not dissimilar" to what artists of all types experience during their work process. "It just happened to show up for me while thinking through solutions to problems," she says.

"I stood back and thought about programming methodology and what I did in organizing the system. I saw there was this different technique being used," she says.
stand back的意思是说，研究来自于工程，但是要高于工程。要想一想工程里面的东西。

"It's much better to go for the thing that's exciting," Liskov says. "But the question of how you know what's worth working on and what's not separates someone who's going to be really good at research and someone who's not. There's no prescription. It comes from your own intuition and judgment."