Richard Helm

Richard Helm is one of the "Gang of Four (software)" who wrote 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]

Richard Helm
Alma mater	University of Melbourne
Known for	Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code
Awards	2005 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
Fields	Mathematics and Computer Science
Institutions	IBM, DMR Group, IBM Consulting Group, Platinion (Australia), Boston Consulting Group
Thesis	Detection and elimination of redundant derivations in logic programming systems (1991)