James Noble is Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering
at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.  His research
centres around software design. This includes the design of the users'
interface, the parts of software that users have to deal with every
day, and the programmers' interface, the internal structures and
organisations of software that programmers see only when they are
designing, building, or modifying software. His research in both of
these areas is coloured by my longstanding interest in object oriented
approaches to design, and topics he has studies range from 
aliasing and object ownership, design patterns, agile methodology, 
via usability, visualisation and computer music, to postmodernism 
and the semiotics of programming.