James Noble is Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering
at Victoria University New Zealand. He has published many papers on
object-orientation design and programming, aspects, software
visualisation and software engineering in international academic
conferences and journals. He is the author of Small Memory Systems:
Patterns for Systems with Limited Memory (with Charles Weir), editor
of Prototype-Based Programming, Pattern Languages of Program Design 5,
and Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming (with various co-editors),
a Foundation Editor-In-Chief of Springer-Verlag Transactions on
Pattern Languages of Progrmaming, and on the Editorial Boards of IET
Software, Systems Signs and Actions, and the International Journal of
Agile and Extreme Software Development. He has been on the Programme
Committees of a number of conferences such as ECOOP (including program
chair) OOPSLA (including Chair of Onward! and the Dynamic Languages
and Doctoral Symposia), AOSD, TOOLS, ACCPM, AUIC, ACSC, CATS,
EuroPLOP, KoalaPLoP (including as chair), and VL/HCC.