IEEE Documentary Night: Adele Goldberg, An Oral History w Dr Mary Ann Hellrigel Guest Speaker
IEEE Documentary Night: Adele Goldberg Oral History with special guest speaker Dr. Mary Ann Hellrigel of the IEEE History Center.
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).
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- Date: 29 Jan 2024
- Time: 08:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- Starts 18 January 2024 12:32 AM
- Ends 29 January 2024 07:50 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Dr Mary Ann Hellrigel
Biography:
Since January 2016, Mary Ann Hellrigel, Ph.D. is the Institutional Historian, Archivist and Oral History Program Manager at the IEEE History Center as well as the manager of the oral history program.
She is the recipient of the IEEE Fellowship in Electrical History, 1993-1994 [now the IEEE Life Member History Fellowship].
Mary Ann has a bachelor's degree in History and Biology from Rutgers University (1983); a master's degree in Public History from UC-Santa Barbara (1989); and a Ph.D. in History of Technology and Science from Case Western Reserve University. She served as a Research Associate and editor at the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, and for more than 30 years, she taught history, women’s history, American Studies, and geography at universities in the USA, including at Stevens Institute of Technology; California State University, Chico; New Jersey Institute of Technology; Iowa State University; and The State University of New York, College at Geneseo.
Mary Ann has widely published and presented papers on Edison and early electric power and has consulted on related exhibits and documentaries. She has been active in the Society for the History of Technology, having served on several prize committees.
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.
IEEE Documentary Night: Adele Goldberg Oral History with special guest speaker Dr. Mary Ann Hellrigel of the IEEE History Center.