Background
Vlissides, John Matthew was born on August 2, 1961 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Matthew John and Sophia (Drakoulis) Vlissides.
Vlissides, John Matthew was born on August 2, 1961 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Matthew John and Sophia (Drakoulis) Vlissides.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Virginia, 1983. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1990.
Vlissides referred to himself as "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way". Education/ 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. John Vlissides died on Thanksgiving 2005 (November 24, 2005) following a struggle with complications from a brain tumor.
He was 44 years old. Ward Cunningham and Grady Booch (on 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 Vlissides. In recognition of the contributions to computer science that John Vlissides made during his lifetime, ACM SIGPLAN has established the John Vlissides Award.
The award is presented annually to a doctoral student participating in the OOPSLA Doctoral Symposium showing significant promise in applied software research.
Member Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu.
Married Dru Ann Miller, November 14, 1992. Children: Matthew, Helen (deceased), Mark, Robert.