Re: CHAT: Goldberg (was: double negatives)

You know, this Adele Eva Goldberg's homepage:

http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/~adele/

Gives no indication of being the same person mentioned in this Adele
Goldberg bio:

http://www.forbes.com/asap/100796/137.htm

Indeed, the Smalltalk Goldberg "was at PARC from 1973 to 1988 as a
laboratory and research scientist," whereas the linguist Goldberg was
then finishing her "BA in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of
Pennsylvania, Spring 1985."

Sounds like it *is* a coincidence.  Although perhaps there is some
factor mitigating the coincidence, like the two being relatives.

Ed Heil ------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net
"Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything
   that's even _remotely_ true!"           -- Homer Simpson

John Cowan wrote:

> Ed Heil wrote:
>
> > Really?  I'd no idea!  wow...
>
> Well, I don't really know that, and I've already been burned by
> two John McCarthys, one in linguistics, one in CS.  But the name
> "Adele Goldberg" is far less common, and if we add OOP as well,
> it seems kinda unlikely that there is another and distinct
> Adele Goldberg.
>
> The sf author Alfred Bester once said of one of his early stories.
> "I have absolutely no memory of writing this story.  However, the
> name at the top is mine and the Social Security number mentioned in
> the first paragraph is also mine.  Either could be a coincidence,
> but not both."
>
> --
>         John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org
> Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger
Schau,
> Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
>                         -- Coleridge / Politzer
>