Ralph Johnson (computer scientist)

Ralph E. Johnson
Born (1955-10-07) October 7, 1955
Occupation Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Website Ralph E. Johnson at UIUC

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.[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

  1. "Johnson Wins 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award Department of Computer Science at Illinois". Retrieved 16 August 2014.
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