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Richard Helm

Richard Helm is one of the co-authors of the influential Design Patterns book. In 2006 he was awarded the Dahl–Nygaard Prize for his contributions to the state of the art embodied in that book. He received the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award in 2010.

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Richard Helm
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Known forDesign Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code
Awards2005 Programming Languages Achievement Award - Awarded by ACM's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN),1 Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2006),2 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2010)3
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics and Computer Science
InstitutionsIBM, DMR Group, IBM Consulting, Platinion (Australia), Boston Consulting Group
ThesisDetection and elimination of redundant derivations in logic programming systems (1991)

Richard Helm is one of the co-authors (referred to as the "Gang of Four") of the influential Design Patterns book. In 2006 he was awarded the Dahl–Nygaard Prize for his contributions to the state of the art embodied in that book.2 He received the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award in 2010.3

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