Richard Helm

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| name = Richard Helm

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| field = Mathematics and Computer Science

| workplaces = IBM, DMR Group, IBM Consulting Group, Platinion (Australia), Boston Consulting Group

| alma_mater = University of Melbourne

| thesis_title = Detection and elimination of redundant derivations in logic programming systems

| thesis_url = https://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au:443/record=b1699039~S32

| thesis_year = 1991

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| known_for = Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code

| awards = 2005 Programming Languages Achievement Award - Awarded by ACM's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN){{cite web |title=ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award |url=https://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Achievement/}}, Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2006){{cite web |title=The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners For 2006 |url=https://sites.google.com/aito-services.org/home/aito-dahl-nygaard/2006-winners?authuser=1 |website=Aito |publisher=Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets |access-date=7 December 2022}}, ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2010){{cite web |title=Outstanding Research Award |website=SIGSOFT |url=https://www2.sigsoft.org/awards/outstandingresearch |access-date=1 April 2024}}

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Richard Helm is one of the "Gang of Four (software)" who wrote the influential Design Patterns book. In 2006 he was awarded the Dahl–Nygaard Prize for his contributions to the state of the art embodied in that book. He received the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award in 2010.