Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham
Cunningham in December 2011
Born	Howard G. Cunningham (1949-05-26) May 26, 1949 (age 75) Michigan City, Indiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Purdue University
Occupation	Computer programmer
Years active	1984–present
Known for	WikiWikiWeb, the first implementation of a wiki The Manifesto for Agile Software Development (document)
Call sign	K9OX

Howard G. Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki and was a co-author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. A pioneer in both design patterns and extreme programming,^{[peacock prose]} he started coding the WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on c2.com (the website of his software consultancy) 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.^[1]