Dr. Adele Goldberg | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | University of Michigan University of Chicago |
Known for | Smalltalk System |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Xerox PARC, Association for Computing Machinery, Stanford University |
Thesis | Computer-Assisted Instruction: The Application of Theorem-proving to Adaptive Response Analysis (1973) |
Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is an American computer scientist. She 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 the basis of knowledge and structure for many other programming languages such as Python, C, and Java.[1] She also developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.