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. 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")
External links
- A brief biography
- Some more information on Dr. Goldberg's career from STJA '99 conference in Erfurt, Germany
- Smalltalk FAQ (reference for publications)
- Neometron
