Adele Goldberg (born
July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on
the programming language Smalltalk-80. In the 1970's she worked for
Xerox's PARC laboratory on the Xerox Alto. She refused to give Steve
Jobs a tour of the laboratory unless her superiors would order her to,
which they eventually did[citation needed].
She is currently working for Neometron, Inc., of Palo Alto,
California. Goldberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in
Chicago, Illinois. In 1994 she was inducted as a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery.
Selected publications
* Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation (with David
Robson), Addison-Wesley, 1983, ISBN 0-201-11371-6 (out of print; known
as the "blue book" to Smalltalk people)
* Smalltalk-80: the Interactive Programming Environment,
Addison-Wesley, 1984, ISBN 0-201-11372-4 (the "orange book")
* Smalltalk-80: The Language (with David Robson), Addison-Wesley,
1989, ISBN 0-201-13688-0 (the "purple book" - a revision of the "blue
book") |
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