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.

External links

• The Portland Pattern Repository's Wiki
• Ward's Wiki signature page
• Contact information for Ward Cunningham
• The Microsoft patterns & practices group home page
• A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking (paper introducing CRC Cards)
• The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work (2004 interview)