John Matthew Vlissides | |
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Occupation(s) | Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Known for | Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code |
Awards | 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award 2006 Dahl–Nygaard Prize[1] |
Website | Ralph E. Johnson at UIUC |
John Matthew Vlissides (August 2, 1961 – November 24, 2005) was a software engineer known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the Gang of Four) of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Vlissides referred to himself as "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way".[2]