Ward Cunningham
Programmer, Organization advisor
1949 –
Who is Ward Cunningham?
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and extreme programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository.
He currently lives in Beaverton, Oregon, and is the Co-Creation Czar for CitizenGlobal. He is Nike's first Code for a Better World Fellow.
He has authored a book about wikis, titled The Wiki Way, and also invented Framework for Integrated Tests. He was a keynote speaker at the first three instances of the WikiSym conference series on wiki research and practice.
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- Born
- May 26, 1949
Michigan City - Also known as
- Каннингем, Уорд
- 沃德·坎宁安
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Purdue University
- Lived in
- Portland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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