Книга: Гамма Э., Хелм Р., Джонсон Р., Влиссидес Дж. / Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides «Приемы объектно-ориентированного проектирования Паттерны проектирования / Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software»

Richard Helm

Richard Helm is currently with The Boston Consulting Group where he consults on the strategic application of technology to business. His career spans high technology research, product development, systems integration, and IT consulting. Prior to joining BCG, Richard has worked with IBM Global Services, DMR, and began his career as a research scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. He is internationally known authority on software architecture and design, and has published extensively. He has some degree of fame as one of the "Gang of Four" for being a co-author of the award winning book Design Patterns and was awarded the 2005 ACM Programming Languages Award. The "Gang of Four" was awarded the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize for 2006. He has a B.Sc(Hons) and a Ph.D from The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Источник: Richard Helm

Ralph Johnson

Infobox Person
name = Ralph E. Johnson
birth_date = birth date and age|1955|10|7
occupation = Research Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
website = [http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/johnson/ Ralph E. Johnson homepage]

:"For other people of the same name, see Ralph Johnson (disambiguation)"Ralph E. Johnson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a co-author of 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, which he attends every year. He initiated the popular OOPSLA Design Fest workshop.

External links

* [http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/ralph/blogView Ralph Johnson's blog]
* [http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/johnson/ Ralph E. Johnson homepage]

Источник: Ralph Johnson

John Vlissides

John Matthew Vlissides (August 2 1961 - November 24 2005) was a software scientist known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the Gang of Four) of the book "". Vlissides referred to himself as "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way".

Education/Career

Vlissides studied electrical engineering at University of Virginia and Stanford University. Since 1986 he worked as software engineer, consultant, research assistant and scholar at Stanford University. From 1991 he stayed at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York as research staff member. He was author of several books, of many magazine articles and conference papers and was awarded with several patents. His work concentrated on object oriented technology, design patterns and software modeling.

Death

John Vlissides died on Thanksgiving 2005 (November 24 2005) following a struggle with complications from a brain tumor. He was 44 years old.

Posthumous

Ward Cunningham and Grady Booch (on [http://www.booch.com/architecture/blog.jsp?archive=2005-11.html his blog entry of Nov 27] , relaying a call from John Vlissides's widow, Dru Ann) have called for stories to remember him by. Since then, there has been a steady inflow of contributions located at the WikiWikiWeb page for .

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050206211551/www.research.ibm.com/people/v/vlis/ John's website] at IBM
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050207033016/www.research.ibm.com/people/v/vlis/pubs.html Selected publications]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050207033016/http://www.research.ibm.com/people/v/vlis/pubs/cv.pdf CV of Vlissides] (PDF file)
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120902004.html Obituary in Washington Post]
* [http://c2.com/ppr/wiki/ComponentDesignPatterns/JohnVlissides.html The wiki of John Vlissides]

Источник: John Vlissides