American computer scientist

Ralph E. Johnson is a Research *ociate 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.

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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External links

• 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