John Vlissides [SEP] cause of death
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.
Death.
John Vlissides died on Thanksgiving 2005 (November 24, 2005) following a struggle with complications from a brain tumor. He was 44 years old.
John Vlissides
John Matthew Vlissides (August 2, 1961 – November 24, 2005) was a software engineer known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the Gang of Four) of the book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software". Vlissides referred to himself as "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way".
Education/Career.
Vlissides studied electrical engineering at University of Virginia and Stanford University. Since 1986 he worked as