1. Howard G Cunningham was born on May 26,1949 and is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki and was a co-author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
17 Facts About Ward Cunningham
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Ward Cunningham began coding the WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on c2.
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Ward Cunningham co-authored a book about wikis, entitled The Wiki Way, and invented the Framework for Integrated Test.
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Ward Cunningham was a keynote speaker at the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2024.
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Ward Cunningham was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 26,1949.
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Ward Cunningham grew up in Highland, Indiana, where he completed high school.
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Ward Cunningham received his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering and his master's degree in computer science from Purdue University, graduating in 1978.
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Ward Cunningham is founder of The Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programming conference which it sponsors.
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On March 24,2011 The Oregonian reported that Ward Cunningham had departed AboutUs to join the Venice Beach-based CitizenGlobal, a startup working on crowd-sourced video content, as their chief technology officer and the Co-Creation Czar.
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Ward Cunningham is well known for a few widely disseminated ideas which he originated and developed.
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Ward Cunningham coined the concept of technical debt and expanded on the idea in 1992.
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Ward Cunningham created the site WikiWikiWeb, the first internet wiki, in 1995.
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In 2011, Ward Cunningham created Smallest Federated Wiki, a tool for wiki federation, which applies aspects of software development such as forking to wiki pages.
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Ward Cunningham has contributed to the practice of object-oriented programming, in particular the use of pattern languages and the class-responsibility-collaboration cards.
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Ward Cunningham contributes to the extreme programming software development methodology.
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Ward Cunningham holds an amateur radio extra class license issued by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Ward Cunningham is Nike's first "Code for a Better World" Fellow.