Ralph Johnson
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Ralph E. Johnson | |
Born | October 7, 1955 |
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Occupation | Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Website Ralph Johnson's blog |
- For other people of the same name, see Ralph Johnson (disambiguation)
Ralph E. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of the influential Computer science textbook, Design Patterns, or GoF book.
Ralph 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 Programing, Systems, Languages and Applications conference, OOPSLA and attends every year. He initiated the popular OOPSLA Design Fest workshop.