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Ward Cunningham
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Cunningham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Michigan City
- Occupation
- technology evangelist
- Employer
- Microsoft
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- software engineering
- Official website
- c2.com
- Image
- Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 - Ward Cunningham-8602.jpg
- Residence
- Portland
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- date of birth
- 1949-05-26
- Commons category
- Ward Cunningham
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- Ward Cunningham
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- Ward Cunningham
- name in native language
- Ward Cunningham
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- social media followers
- 1110
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Howard G. Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer, who developed the first wiki and co-authored the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Called a pioneer, and innovator, he also helped create both software design patterns and extreme programming. He began coding the WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on c2.com (the website of his software consulting firm) on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. He co-authored (with Bo Leuf) a book about wikis, entitled The Wiki Way, and invented the Framework for Integrated Test.
Cunningham was a keynote speaker at the first three instances of the WikiSym conference series on wiki research and practice, and also at the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017. He was a keynote speaker at the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2024.
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