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.

Personal history

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.

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Bachelor's degree - Electrical engineering - Computer science - Master's degree - Purdue University - Wyatt Software - Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory - Hillside Group - Smalltalk

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Since December 2003 he has worked for Microsoft in the "patterns & practices" group.

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2003 - Microsoft

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