 Ralph Johnson is a
professor at the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. He
mixes teaching there with industrial consulting. He is one of the
leading pattern experts, and an expert on software reuse and
object-oriented design.
Ralph Johnson has been working with objects since 1985. He has taught
hundreds of people Smalltalk, some of whom are now widely recognized
Smalltalk experts. His university course is taught over the internet.
He has worked on frameworks for compilers, operating systems, music
synthesis, graphics editors, telephone billing systems, and insurance.
He is recognized as an expert on object-oriented design and frameworks,
having taught tutorials on framework design five times at OOPSLA, and
consulted and taught framework design for many companies.
He is one of
the four authors of the best selling "Design Patterns", and
has been working with patterns for a long time, writing the first paper
at OOPSLA on patterns (in 1992) and helping organize PLoP'94, the first
conference on software patterns.
Ralph has been focusing on building success in software
development by looking at ways to reduce the development cycle.
This has lead to his involvement with
eXtreme Programming which he has
recently sponsored as a four-week workshop at the University of Illinois
for both Industry and Graduate level students.
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