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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. Termed 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ward Cunningham has received more than 1,106,205 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Ward Cunningham is the 28th most popular computer scientist (down from 26th in 2019), the 2,047th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,872nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ward Cunningham ranks 28 out of 245. Before him are Guido van Rossum, Alan Kay, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Naur, and Kevin Mitnick. After him are Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Allen Newell, Satoshi Nakamoto, Luigi Federico Menabrea, and Ken Kutaragi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ward Cunningham ranks 125. Before him are Alan Menken, Bengt Holmström, Manuel Marín, Michael W. Young, Klaus Fischer, and Arif Alvi. After him are Clodoaldo, Göran Persson, Steve Perry, Marc Ravalomanana, Ariel Henry, and Slavenka Drakulić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ward Cunningham ranks 2,047 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Walter Chrysler (1875), Venus Williams (1980), Larry Silverstein (1931), Eleanor Parker (1922), and Irving Thalberg (1899). After him are Tina Aumont (1946), Barbara Liskov (1939), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Ry Cooder (1947), Tim Allen (1953), and King Vidor (1894).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ward Cunningham ranks 18. Before him are Ken Thompson (1943), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Alan Kay (1940), Larry Page (1973), and Kevin Mitnick (1963). After him are Barbara Liskov (1939), Allen Newell (1927), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Jef Raskin (1943), Alan Perlis (1922), and Frances E. Allen (1932).

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