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.