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Ralph Johnson is on the list of [[InvitedAuthors]] whom [[Ward Cunningham]] first solicited to contribute to [[WikiWikiWeb]] because they were interested in [[PatternLanguage]].
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Ralph Johnson is one of the [[Gang of Four]] who co-authored the Design Patterns book.
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Ralph Johnson was also one of the original members of the [[Hillside Group]]. He is on the [[PatternsList]] of [[InvitedAuthors]] whom [[Ward Cunningham]] first asked to contribute to [[WikiWikiWeb]] because they were interested in [[PatternLanguage]]. It seems moreover that Ralph Johnson may have ''created'' the mailing list that was used as the [[PatternsList]].
  
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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.
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Ralph E. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was an early pioneer in the Smalltalk community and is a continued supporter of the language.
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Ralph Johnson is one of the [[Gang of Four]] (GoF) that co-authored the influential Computer science textbook, Design Patterns.
  
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.
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He has held several executive roles at the ACM Object-Oriented Programing, Systems, Languages and Applications ([[OOPSLA]]) conference, and attends every year. He initiated the popular [[OOPSLA]] Design Fest workshop.
  
 
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