Q: What is Adele Goldberg best known for?

A: Goldberg is best known for developing the Smalltalk programming language, which pioneered object-oriented programming and influenced GUI design.

Q: Where did Adele Goldberg work?

A: She worked at Xerox PARC, where she led the Smalltalk project, and later at IBM.

Q: What awards has Adele Goldberg received?

A: She received the ACM Software System Award (1987), was named an ACM Fellow (1994), and was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame (2010).

Adele Goldberg

American computer scientist (born 1945)

Person Human Q11605

Facts

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Instance of: human
Sex or gender: female^[18]
Date of birth: July 22, 1945, July 7, 1945^[5]
Place of birth: Cleveland
Country of citizenship: United States^[6]
Occupation: computer scientist, programmer
Employer: Palo Alto Research Center, IBM^[8]^[9]
Field of work: computer science^[7]
Educated at: University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts^[10]
Award received: ACM Software System Award, Women in Technology Hall of Fame, ACM Fellow, honorary doctorate^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]
Notable work: Smalltalk Source Code^[12]
Doctoral advisor: Patrick Suppes^[11]
Languages spoken, written or signed: English^[24]
Academic degree: PhD in computer science, Master of Information Science^[20]^[21]
Archives at: Computer History Museum^[19]
Family name: Goldberg^[22]
Given name: Adele^[23]
Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics^[25]
Member of: Association for Computing Machinery^[17]

🏷️ Also known as

en Adele Goldberg en Adele Jean Goldberg en Adele J. Goldberg ar أديل غولدبرغ es Adele Golberg fa ادل گلدبرگ he אדל גולדברג ja アデル・ゴールドバーグ ja エイデル・ゴールドバーグ ko 아델 골드버그 ru Адель Голдберг ru Голдберг, Адель uk Адель Голдберг (програмістка)

🔖 Identifiers · 31

ISNI: 0000000066507358
VIAF cluster ID: 94780281
Library of Congress Authorities ID: n82091660
GND ID: 132191067
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Adele Goldberg at PyCon 2007.jpg ↗
ACM Digital Library author ID: 81332500811, 81100493367
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12541122z
CONOR.SI ID: 64059235
CiNii Research ID: 1140282266713241344
DBLP author ID: g/AdeleGoldberg
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: biography/Adele-Goldberg
FAST ID: 1453408

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Freebase ID: /m/01knz8
Goodreads author ID: 427672
IdRef ID: 034682163
J9U entity ID: 987007457805905171
Libraries Australia ID: 36534268
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 344679
NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA00148602
NDL Authority ID: 00441140
NLA Trove people ID: 1277644
National Library of Israel ID (old): 002327723
Online Books Page author ID: Goldberg, Adele
Open Library ID: OL586670A
Quora topic ID: Adele-Goldberg
SHARE Catalogue author ID: 47243
Scopus author ID: 57190037405
Unz Review author ID: GoldbergAdele
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJhMgrYpwxmW4PjfhBQyVC
Yale LUX ID: person/f8428fbf-7a8b-40cb-8a7d-2351a12aaf8a
ZbMATH author ID: goldberg.adele

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Award received 4

honorary doctorate, ACM Software System Award, ACM Fellow, Women in Technology Hall of Fame

Employer 2

IBM, Palo Alto Research Center

Field of work 2

computer science, programmer

Archives at 1

Computer History Museum

Chaired by 1

Association for Computing Machinery

Country of citizenship 1

United States

Doctoral advisor 1

Patrick Suppes

Doctoral advisors 1

Patrick Suppes

Educated at 1

University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Family name 1

Goldberg

Given name 1

Adele

Instance of 1

human

Languages spoken, written or signed 1

English

Maintained by WikiProject 1

WikiProject Mathematics

Member of 1

Association for Computing Machinery

Occupation 1

computer scientist

Place of birth 1

Cleveland

Sex or gender 1

female

← Designed by 1

Smalltalk

← Developer 1

Smalltalk

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Adele Goldberg was born on July 22, 1945, in Cleveland.^[1] She has United States citizenship.^[2]

FAQs

Where was Adele Goldberg born?

Adele Goldberg was born in Cleveland^[2].

What did Adele Goldberg do for work?

Adele Goldberg worked as a computer scientist^[3] and programmer^[4].

Where did Adele Goldberg go to school?

Adele Goldberg was educated at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts^[10].

What awards did Adele Goldberg receive?

Honors received include ACM Software System Award^[13], Women in Technology Hall of Fame^[14], ACM Fellow^[15], and honorary doctorate^[16].

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[2] ↑ Adele Goldberg — place of birth (P19): Cleveland. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Adele Goldberg — sex or gender (P21): female. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2024-07-04. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Adele Goldberg — country of citizenship (P27): United States. IdRef. Retrieved 2020-03-04. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Adele Goldberg — educated at (P69): University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Adele Goldberg — field of work (P101): computer science. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Adele Goldberg — occupation (P106): computer scientist. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2026-04-20. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Adele Goldberg — occupation (P106): programmer. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Adele Goldberg — employer (P108): PARC. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Adele Goldberg — employer (P108): IBM. article. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Adele Goldberg — award received (P166): ACM Software System Award. awards.acm.org. awards.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Adele Goldberg — award received (P166): Women in Technology Hall of Fame. witi.com. witi.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Adele Goldberg — award received (P166): ACM Fellow. awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-23. awards.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Adele Goldberg — award received (P166): honorary doctorate. www5.open.ac.uk. www5.open.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Adele Goldberg — doctoral advisor (P184): Patrick Suppes. archive.computerhistory.org. Retrieved 2026-01-06. archive.computerhistory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Adele Goldberg — member of (P463): Association for Computing Machinery. awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-23. awards.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Adele Goldberg — archives at (P485): Computer History Museum. computerhistory.org. Retrieved 2016-12-20. computerhistory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Adele Goldberg — academic degree (P512): PhD in computer science. computerhistory.org. computerhistory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Adele Goldberg — academic degree (P512): Master of Information Science. computerhistory.org. computerhistory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[1] ↑ Adele Goldberg — date of birth (P569): July 22, 1945. GRID. Retrieved 2020-02-10. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Adele Goldberg — date of birth (P569): July 7, 1945. Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 2019-08-23. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Adele Goldberg — family name (P734): Goldberg. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Adele Goldberg — given name (P735): Adele. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Adele Goldberg — notable work (P800): Smalltalk Source Code. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Adele Goldberg — languages spoken, written or signed (P1412): English. IdRef. Retrieved 2020-03-04. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Adele Goldberg — maintained by WikiProject (P6104): WikiProject Mathematics. wikidata.org.

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