Ralph E. Johnson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Un ...

. He is a co-author of the influential

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textbook '' Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software'', for which he won the 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. In 2006 he was awarded the Dahl–Nygaard Prize for his contributions to the state of the art embodied in that book as well. Johnson was an early pioneer in the

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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

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. He initiated the popular OOPSLA Design Fest workshop.

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Ralph Johnson's blog

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Interview with Ralph Johnson
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2009, discussing Parallel Programming Patterns
Presentation on a Pattern Language for Parallel Programming
from QCon London 2010 American computer scientists Living people Scientists from Illinois University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Dahl–Nygaard Prize {{compu-bio-stub