Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham
A bearded man in his early sixties grinning, wearing wire rim eyeglasses and an olive drab fleece jacket
Cunningham in December 2011
Born
Howard G. Cunningham

(1949-05-26) May 26, 1949 (age 75)
Michigan City, Indiana, U.S.
Alma materPurdue University
OccupationComputer programmer
Years active1984–present
Known forWikiWikiWeb, the first implementation of a wiki
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development (document)
Call signK9OX

Howard G. Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki[1][2] and was a co-author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Termed a pioneer,[3] and innovator,[1][2] 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.[4] He was a keynote speaker at the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2024.[5]

  1. ^ a b Isaacson, Walter (October 7, 2014). "The Web". The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon & Schuster. pp. 405–466. ISBN 9781442376229.
  2. ^ a b Isaacson, Walter (October 19, 2014). "You can look it up: The Wikipedia story". The Daily Beast. IAC Inc. Excerpt from 2014 book The Innovators.
  3. ^ Bishop, Todd (January 26, 2004). "Microsoft Notebook: Wiki pioneer planted the seed and watched it grow". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Section: Business; Page D1.
  4. ^ "Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 Program". Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  5. ^ "MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2024". Retrieved August 2, 2024.