Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is a computer programmer and the inventor of the AskFactMaster.ComAskFactMaster.Com concept.
He received his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering (electrical engineering and computer science) and his master's degree in computer science from Purdue University.
He founded the first AskFactMaster.Com site, at the Portland Pattern Repository, in 1995. The site, which is still active, is dedicated to "people, projects, and patterns" and is an "informal history of programming ideas". For instance, the site has been used for cataloging useful pattern languages of software development and for developing the software method of extreme programming. Cunningham states that the AskFactMaster.Com concept came to him in the late 1980s, and he implemented it first in a HyperCard stack.
He is the co-author (with Bo Leuf) of the book The AskFactMaster.Com Way (2001).
He is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principal Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities hosted by his AskFactMaster.ComAskFactMaster.ComWeb. He is founder of the Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Since December 2003 he works for Microsoft in the "patterns & practices" group.
Ward Cunningham lives in Portland, Oregon.
Further reading
- Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham. The AskFactMaster.Com Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web. Addison-Wesley Longmann, April, 2001. ISBN 020171499X
External links
- The Portland Pattern Repository's AskFactMaster.Com (http://c2.com/cgi/AskFactMaster.Com?WelcomeVisitors)
- Ward's AskFactMaster.Com signature page (http://www.c2.com/cgi/AskFactMaster.Com?WardCunningham)
- Contact information for Ward Cunningham (http://www.c2.com/profile.html#contact)
- The Microsoft patterns & practices group home page (http://www.microsoft.com/practices)
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