Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)
Dr. Adele Goldberg | |
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Dr. Adele Goldberg at Python Conference (PyCon) 2007 | |
| Born | July 22, 1945 |
| 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 an influence on other programming languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java. She also developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.