For other people of the same name, see Ralph Johnson (disambiguation)

Ralph Johnson (disambiguation)

Ralph Johnson may refer to:* Ralph Johnson * Ralph Johnson , Chicago-based architect* Ralph H. Johnson , United States Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War...

Ralph E. Johnson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

. He is a co-author of the influential computer science

Computer science

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 textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

Ralph was an early pioneer in the Smalltalk

Smalltalk

Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist...

 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

OOPSLA

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, which he attends every year. He initiated the popular OOPSLA Design Fest workshop.

External links

• Ralph Johnson's blog
• Ralph E. Johnson homepage
• Interview with Ralph Johnson from OOPSLA
  OOPSLA
  OOPSLA is an annual ACM research conference. OOPSLA mainly takes place in the United States, while the sister conference of OOPSLA, ECOOP, is typically held in Europe...
  
  2009, discussing Parallel Programming Patterns
• Presentation on a Pattern Language for Parallel Programming from QCon London 2010