Join IEEE Documentary Night: Adele Goldberg, An Oral History.
We will introduce IEEE Oral Histories with special guest speaker Dr. Mary Ann Hellrigel of the IEEE History Center.
Then we will watch videos with breaks for discussion.
Today's Oral History: Dr. Adele Goldberg with video segments from her oral history conducted by the Computer History Museum as well as a video created for her induction into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame by Workforce Innovation, Trust, and Influence (WITI).
Dr. Hellrigel will highlight portions of Goldberg’s oral history recorded by Janet Abbate in 2002 which is now part of the IEEE History Center’s Women in Computing Oral History Collection. This oral history has the most unique page visits for the previous 365 days among all IEEE Oral Histories of women.
Dr. Goldberg began her career as a researcher at Xerox, where she developed the programming language Smalltalk and managed the System Concepts Laboratory. She continued to develop Smalltalk technology as the head of ParcPlace Systems. She served as president of the Association for Computing Machinery and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from PC Magazine in 1990 (IEEE).
Speaker(s): Dr Mary Ann Hellrigel,
Agenda:
We will introduce IEEE Oral Histories with special guest speaker Dr. Mary Ann Hellrigel of the IEEE History Center.
Then we will watch videos with breaks for discussion.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/400868