Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who participated in the development of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, in the 1970s.
Goldberg began working at PARC in 1973, and eventually became manager of the System Concepts Laboratory where she, Alan Kay, and others developed Smalltalk-80. Goldberg and K...
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Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who participated in the development of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, in the 1970s.
Goldberg began working at PARC in 1973, and eventually became manager of the System Concepts Laboratory where she, Alan Kay, and others developed Smalltalk-80. Goldberg and Kay also were involved in the development of design templates, forerunners of the design patterns commonly used in software design. In 1988 Goldberg left PARC to co-found ParcPlace Systems, a company that created development tools for Smalltalk-based applications.
She served as president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 1984 to 1986, and, together with Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls, received the ACM Software Systems Award in 1987. She also received PC Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990. In 1994 she was inducted as a...
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