Ralph Johnson (computer scientist)
| Ralph E. Johnson | |
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| Occupation | Research Associate Professor | 
| Known for | Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code | 
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| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 
| Website | cs | 
Ralph E. Johnson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a co-author of the influential computer science textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, for which he won the 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.[2] In 2006 he was awarded the Dahl–Nygaard Prize for his contributions to the state of the art embodied in that book as well.[1]
Johnson was an early pioneer in the Smalltalk community and is a continued supporter of the language. He has held several executive roles at the ACM Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications conference OOPSLA. He initiated the popular OOPSLA Design Fest workshop.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners For 2006". Aito. Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ^ "Johnson Wins 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award Department of Computer Science at Illinois". Retrieved 16 August 2014.
External links
[edit]- Ralph Johnson's blog
- Ralph E. Johnson at UIUC
- Interview with Ralph Johnson from OOPSLA 2009, discussing Parallel Programming Patterns
- Presentation on a Pattern Language for Parallel Programming from QCon London 2010
 
	
