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Ward Cunningham is a computer programmer who created [[WikiWikiWeb]], the first-ever wiki, in 1995.

Cunningham created the [[WikiWikiWeb]] as a repository of information on [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PeopleProjectsAndPatterns People, Projects and Patterns] related to Pattern Languages. It formed a companion website to his [[Portland Pattern Repository]]. Both of these sites were (and still are) hosted on the [[c2]] website of Ward's company "Cunningham & Cunningham."

Cunningham is known for his contributions to the use of pattern languages in the development of object-oriented programming. His interest in patterns was inspired by architect [[Christopher Alexander]]. [[Kent Beck]] and Ward Cunningham took up the idea of applying patterns to programming and presented their results at the 1987 [[OOPSLA conference]]. [[Design Patterns]] in computer science were made popular by the success of the book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software," published in 1994 by the [[Gang of Four]]. The [[Portland Pattern Repository]] was set up the following year as a repository of documentation on design patterns.

Cunningham also developed [[CRC Cards]] (CRC stands for Class-Responsibility-Collaboration) with [[Kent Beck]], and took up the latter's invention of [[Extreme Programming]].

==Biographical and Personal Information==
Wikipedia biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham

Ward's page on [[WikiWikiWeb]]: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WardCunningham

Ward's page on advogato: http://www.advogato.org/person/Ward/

Ward's personal page on [[c2]]: http://c2.com/~ward/

==Other Links==
Website of Hillside group: http://hillside.net/patterns/

Website of Ward's current employer Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org

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