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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 People and Projects 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 (Class-Responsibility-Collaboration) cards with [[Kent Beck]], and contributed to the latter's invention of [[Extreme Programming]].

Website of Hillside group: http://hillside.net/patterns/