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Ward Cunningham

1949 - Today

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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. Called a pioneer, and innovator, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ward Cunningham is the 31st most popular computer scientist (down from 28th in 2019), the 1,993rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,047th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ward Cunningham ranks 31 out of 245. Before him are Vint Cerf, Larry Page, Sudha Murty, George Dantzig, Arthur Samuel, and Edgar F. Codd. After him are Richard E. Stearns, Sergey Brin, Hal Finney, Guido van Rossum, Tony Hoare, and Ken Kutaragi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ward Cunningham ranks 109. Before him are Axel Honneth, Angie Bowie, Josip Bozanić, Walid Jumblatt, Valentina Matviyenko, and Göran Persson. After him are Brigitte Bierlein, Queen Aishwarya of Nepal, Fernando Collor de Mello, Valeriy Borzov, Jack Reed, and Paloma Picasso.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ward Cunningham ranks 1,993 out of 20,380. Before him are Cloris Leachman (1926), Michael Dudikoff (1954), Michael Moore (1954), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), William Nordhaus (1941), and Madam C. J. Walker (1867). After him are Joseph Greenberg (1915), Henry A. Wallace (1888), Rollo May (1909), Jean Arthur (1900), Néstor Carbonell (1967), and Jake LaMotta (1922).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ward Cunningham ranks 21. Before him are Alan Kay (1940), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Larry Page (1973), George Dantzig (1914), and Arthur Samuel (1901). After him are Richard E. Stearns (1936), Hal Finney (1956), Charles Bachman (1924), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Steve Russell (1937), and Kevin Mitnick (1963).

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