Goldberg, Adele

LC control no.	n 82091660
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Goldberg, Adele *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1945-07-07
Place of birth	Cleveland (Ohio)
Affiliation	Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Profession or occupation	Computer programmer
Found in	Her Smalltalk-80, 1983: CIP t.p. (Adele Goldberg) galley (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) NUCMC data from Computer Hist. Museum for Her Papers, 1973-2010 (Adele Goldberg was born July 7, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a BA in mathematics from the Univ. of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a master's in information science from the University of Chicago. In 1969, Goldberg began studying for her PhD in information science at Stanford Univ. as a visiting Univ. of Chicago student; she then became a research associate at Stanford while working on her dissertation. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973. After receiving her PhD, Goldberg went to work at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) as a laboratory and research associate, and in 1979 she became the manager of its System Concepts Laboratory. At Xerox PARC, Goldberg was a co-creator of the highly influential programming language Smalltalk-80, along with Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and other designers. The first object-oriented programming language, Smalltalk introduced many of the characteristics seen in personal computers today, including the graphical user interface, overlapping windows, point-and-click menus, dragging and dropping, and icons. Goldberg wrote much of the documentation for Smalltalk-80, including the books Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation (1983), Smalltalk-80: the Interactive Programming Environment (1984), and Smalltalk-80: The Language (1989), co-written with David Robson and considered the definitive books on the subject. From 1984 to 1986, Goldberg was the president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 1988, she co-founded a spin-off business from Xerox called ParcPlace Systems that commercialized Smalltalk-80 and provided licensing of and support for it. She left ParcPlace in 1995, and in 1999 she co-founded the technological consulting firm Neometron. She has also acted as CTO for various companies, served on advisory boards, and designed online college courses in math and science)