RJ
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Computer scientist
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Male
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7 October 1955
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Biography
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.
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.