James Noble (computer scientist)

James Noble is a New Zealand computer scientist who was the 2016 winner of the Dahl-Nygaard Prize for research in software engineering. In 2008 he received the Most Influential OOPSLA Paper Award for the 1998 paper "Ownership types for flexible alias protection."

He was Professor of Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand until February 2022. Noble is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals of New Zealand and the British Computer Society and has contributed to object-oriented and aspect-oriented approaches to software design.