Ward Cunningham

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Chief Technology Officer at AboutUs, a wiki-based, open Internet domain directory
The original inventor of wiki
Co-founder of the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.
Has held senior position in a number of organizations: Director of Committer Community Development of the Eclipse Foundation, Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, Director of R&D at Wyatt Software, Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory
Well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb
Hosts the AgileManifesto.org
Founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the world
Co-author of The Wiki Way book