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adele goldberg -lrb- computer scientist -rrb-

adele goldberg -lrb- born july 7 , 1945 -rrb- is a computer scientist who participated in the development of the programming language smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the xerox palo alto research center , parc , in the 1970s .
goldberg was born in cleveland , ohio , and grew up in chicago , illinois .
she received her bachelor 's degree in mathematics at the university of michigan in ann arbor , and a master 's degree in information science from the university of chicago .
she received her phd in information science from the university of chicago in 1973 .
she completed her dissertation , `` computer-assisted instruction : the application of theorem-proving to adaptive response analysis , '' while working as a research associate at stanford university .
she also served as a visiting researcher at stanford university .
goldberg began working at parc in 1973 as a laboratory and research assistant , and eventually became manager of the system concepts laboratory where she , alan kay , and others developed smalltalk-80 , which both developed the object-oriented approach of simula 67 and introduced a programming environment of overlapping windows on graphic display screens .
not only was smalltalk 's innovative format simpler to use , it was also customizable and objects could be transferred among applications with minimal effort .
goldberg and kay also were involved in the development of `` design templates '' , forerunners of the design patterns commonly used in software design .
along with kay , she wrote the influential article `` personal dynamic media '' , which predicted a world where ordinary individuals would use notebook computers to exchange , modify , and redistribute personal media .
this paper outlined the vision for the dynabook .
she served as president of the association for computing machinery -lrb- acm -rrb- from 1984 to 1986 , and , together with alan kay and dan ingalls , received the acm software systems award in 1987 and was also included in forbes 's `` twenty who matter '' .
she also received `` pc magazine '' 's lifetime achievement award in 1996 .
in 1994 she was inducted as a fellow of the association for computing machinery .
many of the concepts developed by goldberg and her team at parc became the basis for graphically based user interfaces , replacing the earlier command line based systems .
according to goldberg , steve jobs demanded a demonstration of the smalltalk system , which she refused to give him .
her superiors eventually ordered her to , at which point she complied , satisfied that the decision to `` give away the kitchen sink '' to jobs and his team was then their responsibility .
apple eventually used many of the ideas in the alto and their implementations as the basis for their macintosh desktop .
in 1988 , goldberg left parc to co-founded parcplace systems , a company that created development tools for smalltalk-based applications .
she served as parcplace systems 's chairwoman and ceo until its 1995 merger with digitalk .
she cofounded , and is currently working at neometron , inc. an internet support provider in 1999 , of palo alto , california .
she works at bullitics .
at the same time , she continues to pursue her interest in education , formulating computer science courses at community colleges in the united states and at schools abroad .
in the same vein , she is a board member and adviser at cognito learning media , a provider of multimedia software for science education .
