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Adele Golberg

born 1945

About this person

Wikipedia Summary

Adele J. Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was a co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80, an early object-oriented programming language that influenced the design of languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java, and developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming, while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s. She worked alongside her coworkers Dan Ingalls and Alan Kay.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
July 22, 1945
Cleveland
Citizenship

United States

Occupations & fields
computer scientistprogrammer
Awards & honours
ACM Software System AwardWomen in Technology Hall of FameACM Fellowhonorary doctorate
Notable works
Smalltalk Source Code
Field and occupation
americká informatička
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