Ralph Johnson (computer scientist)

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Ralph E. Johnson
OccupationResearch Associate Professor
Known for Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Website cs.illinois.edu/directory/profile/rjohnson

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.

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References

  1. 1 2 "The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners For 2006". Aito. Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets . Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  2. "Johnson Wins 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award Department of Computer Science at Illinois" . Retrieved 16 August 2014.