Dr. Adele Goldberg is currently a founder of Neometron, Inc., a Texas-based company working towards Intranet support for self-managed teams. Previously, she served as Chairman of the Board and a founder of ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. until April, 1996. Prior to the creation of ParcPlace, Adele received a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Chicago and spent 14 years as researcher and laboratory manager of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. From 1984-1986, Adele served as president of the ACM. Solely and with others, Adele wrote the definitive books on the Smalltalk-80 system and has authored numerous papers on project management and analysis methodology using object-oriented technology. Dr. Goldberg edited "The History of Personal Workstations," published jointly by the ACM and Addison-Wesley in 1988 as part of the ACM Press Book Series of the History of Computing which she organized, and co-edited "Visual Object-Oriented Programming" with Margaret Burnett and Ted Lewis. In 1995, a new book on software engineering appeared entitled "Succeeding With Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project Management" with Kenneth S. Rubin.

She was recipient of the ACM Systems Software Award in 1987 along with Dan Ignalls and Alan Kay, PC Magazine's 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant contributions to the personal computer industry, is a Fellow of the ACM, and was honored in 1995 with the Reed College Howard Vollum Award for contributions to science and technology. She is currently a member of the scientific advisory board of the German National Research Centers (GMD), the governing board of the San Francisco Exploratorium, and is a director of Cogito Learning Media, a private company developing supplemental materials for college-level science and business courses.