Adele Goldberg

Born: 1945

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

University of Michigan BA Mathematics 1967; University of Chicago MA 1969 & PhD 1973 both in Information Science

"“The Dynabook mission remains to create the medium, both the creative modeling environment and the curriculum, to upend how kids can share their understanding of how things work, and be challenged as to whether that understanding reflects an approximation to reality.” (Wikipedia); “sets of holes serve as temporary storage locations, or registers. You run physical wires from register to register to transfer the data or process the data. That was ‘programming’!” (extremenetworks.com); “Knowing about computers, and knowing about math, is just a basic skill these days, so you need to learn something about both. You can’t not do it because socially it’s not the thing to do […] It’s hard to say that to teenage girls, but they do need to stay focused on these things.” (extremenetworks.com); “Quit worrying about failure. Failure’s easy. Worry about if you’re successful because then you have to deal with it.” (archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102701984-05-01-acc.pdf); "

— Adele Goldberg

Field of Study: Computer Science

Institution/Corporation: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Degrees & Memberships: Honorary Degrees: Open University UK (1998); University of Michigan (2014); Member: Association for Computing Machinery (President 1984-86); Board & Advisor of Cognito Learning Media; Fellow Computer History Museum (2022); Science Advisory Board for Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies;

Awards: 1987 software Systems Award, Association for Computing Machinery; 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award, PC Magazine; 2002 Dr. dobb's Excellence in Programming Award (with Dan Ingalls); 2010 Women in Technology International Hall of Fame; 2021 Alumni Professional Achievement Award, University of Chicago;

Achievements: was one of the co-developers of the programming language Smalltalk-80, which is a computer software that simplifies the programming language, and has been an influence on other programming languages such as Python, C, and Java; developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming; with Alan Kay was involved in the development of design templates, forerunners of the design patterns later used in software design; 1976 with Kay wrote the influential article "Personal Dynamic Media", which predicted a world in which ordinary individuals would use notebook computers to exchange, modify, and redistribute personal media; 1988 left PARC to cofound ParcPlace Systems, a company that created development tools for Smalltalk-based applications; 1999 cofounded Neometron, Inc. an Internet support provider; she co-wrote the seminal book on Smalltalk-80 with David Robson, another on the programming tools and user interface concepts, and a third with Kenneth Rubin on how the new technology impacts professional approaches to software development project management; co-founded AgileMind, a provider of Internet and classroom-based support for K-12 teachers and students;