Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)

Dr. Adele Goldberg
Dr. Adele Goldberg at Python Conference (PyCon) 2007
Born	(1945-07-22) July 22, 1945 (age 78) Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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 the basis of knowledge and structure for many other programming languages such as Python, C, and Java.^[1] She also developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.