Ward Cunningham


 
 

Howard G. Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is a computer programmer and is best known as the prime inventor of WikiWikiWeb and one of pioneers in patterns and Extreme Programming. He founded the first wiki site, at the Portland Pattern Repository, on March 25, 1995. Cunningham, known in some software circles simply as Ward, currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Cunningham received his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering (electrical engineering and computer science) and his master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. He is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principal Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. He is founder of the Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Ward was part of the Smalltalk community.


 

May 26: May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). There are 219 days remaining before the end of the year....

1949: 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday....

Computer program: A computer program or software program (usually abbreviated to "a program") is a step-by-step list of instructions written for a particular computer architecture in a particular computer programming language. A layman equivalent example would be writing a step-by-step list of instructions in English...


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Ward Bond
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Cam Ward
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Burt Ward
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Simon Ward
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Hines Ward
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Charlie Ward
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Burt Ward - Batman
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