James Noble was the 2016 winner of the Dahl-Nygaard Prize. He was

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until February 2022. Noble is a Fellow of the

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of New Zealand and the British Computer Society, and a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and

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. He held a James Cook Research Fellowship from the

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in 2015 and 2016. Noble is the founding Editor-In-Chief of the journal Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming (published by

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). Noble has a world-leading reputation for his work on object-orientation. He has published over 300 papers. He is known for his pioneering work in programming language design, especially through his contributions to novel type systems such as ownership types and pluggable types. He has contributed to object-oriented and aspect-oriented approaches to software design, design patterns and the analysis of software corpus, software visualisation and visual languages, user interaction and agile development methodologies.

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