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Jim Coplien is on the list of [[InvitedAuthors]] whom [[Ward Cunningham]] first solicited to contribute to [[WikiWikiWeb]] because they were interested in [[PatternLanguage]].

==Biography==
Jim Coplien is a writer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Computer Science. He has made key contributions in the areas software design and organizational development, software debugging, and in empirical research.

Books he has written include:
*Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms 
*Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ 
*Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development (co-authored with Neil Harrison) 

He has been a co-editor of these books:
*Pattern Languages of Program Design I and II

His ongoing work with Liping Zhao includes a monograph entitled "A Generalized Formal Design Theory" which explores the foundations of symmetry and symmetry breaking in design in general, and in patterns in particular.

Cope was a founding Member of [[Hillside Group]] with [[Kent Beck]], [[Grady Booch]], [[Ward Cunningham]], [[Ralph Johnson]], [[Ken Auer]] and [[Hal Hildebrand]]. He has started up several of the conferences in the PLoP conference series and is a longstanding pattern author and PloP shepherd. His pattern form, the "Coplien Form," is a simplified way to structure a pattern in preparation for writing a more literate version in Alexandrian form.

He was also Program Chair of OOPSLA in 1996.

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Coplien
*http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JimCoplien

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