Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)

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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.

[edit] 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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