James Noble (computer scientist)

James Noble is a New Zealand computer scientist who was the 2016 winner of the Dahl-Nygaard Prize for research in software engineering.^[1] In 2008 he received the Most Influential OOPSLA Paper Award^[2] for the 1998 paper "Ownership types for flexible alias protection."

James Noble
at the WikiSym 2006
Alma mater	Victoria University of Wellington
Awards	AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Victoria University of Wellington
Thesis	(1996)
Website	ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Main/JamesNoble

He was Professor of Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand until February 2022. Noble is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals of New Zealand and the British Computer Society and has contributed to object-oriented and aspect-oriented approaches to software design.^[3]

Selected publications

• Clarke, David G., John M. Potter, and James Noble. "Ownership types for flexible alias protection." In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, pp. 48-64. 1998.
• Tempero, Ewan, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, Ted Han, Jing Li, Markus Lumpe, Hayden Melton, and James Noble. "The qualitas corpus: A curated collection of java code for empirical studies." In 2010 Asia pacific software engineering conference, pp. 336-345. IEEE, 2010.
• Hoda, Rashina, James Noble, and Stuart Marshall. "Self-organizing roles on agile software development teams." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 39, no. 3 (2012): 422-444.
• Noble, James, Jan Vitek, and John Potter. "Flexible alias protection." In ECOOP’98—Object-Oriented Programming: 12th European Conference Brussels, Belgium, July 20–24, 1998 Proceedings 12, pp. 158-185. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998.