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Ralph Johnson is one of the [[Gang of Four]] who co-authored the Design Patterns book.

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==
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.

Ralph Johnson is one of the [[Gang of Four]] (GoF) that co-authored the influential Computer science textbook, Design Patterns.

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.

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Johnson
*http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RalphJohnson

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