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Adele Goldberg

American computer scientist · United States · On the map · Developers · Born 1945 · age 81

Adele J. Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was a co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80, an early object-oriented programming language that influenced the design of languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java, and developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming, while a...

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2010Women in Technology Hall of FameAward1998Honorary DoctorateAward1994ACM FellowAward1987ACM Software System AwardAward1945Born7 July 1945

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Women in Technology Hall of Fame2010
Honorary Doctorate1998
ACM Fellow1994
ACM Software System Award1987

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She was a co-developer of the programming language Smalltalk-80, an early object-oriented programming language that influenced the design of languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java, and developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming, while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s.

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Born 1945 · age 81