| James Noble | |
| Work Institution: | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Alma Mater: | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Thesis Year: | 1996 |
James Noble was the 2016 winner of the Dahl-Nygaard Prize.[1] He was Professor of Computer Science at the Victoria University of Wellington, in Wellington, New Zealand until February 2022.
Noble is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals 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 Engineering New Zealand Te Ao Rangahau. He held a James Cook Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015 and 2016. Noble is the founding Editor-In-Chief of the journal Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming (published by Springer).
Noble has a world-leading reputation for his work on object-orientation. He has published over 300 papers.[2] 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.[3]