Editing Ward Cunningham (section)

==Early life and career==
Cunningham was born in [[Michigan City, Indiana]], on May 26, 1949.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harry Henderson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Tla6d153uwC&q=ward+cunningham+may+26+1949&pg=PA122 |title=Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology |publisher=Facts On File |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8160-6382-6 |page=122}}</ref> He grew up in [[Highland, Lake County, Indiana|Highland, Indiana]], where he completed high school.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ward's Home Page |url=http://c2.com/~ward/ |access-date=September 29, 2018}}</ref> 

Cunningham received his bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering (electrical engineering and computer science) and his master's degree in computer science from [[Purdue University]], graduating in 1978.<ref>The Wikipedia Revolution - Andrew Lih, page 46</ref> He is a co-founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, a software consultancy he started with his wife.<ref>Lih, Andrew (2009). ''The Wikipedia Revolution'', p. 58. Hyperion, New York. {{ISBN|9781401303716}}.</ref> 

Cunningham has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principal Engineer in the [[Tektronix]] Computer Research Laboratory. He is founder of [[The Hillside Group]] and has served as program chair of the [[Pattern Languages of Programming]] conference which it sponsors. 

Cunningham was part of the [[Smalltalk]] community.

From December 2003 until October 2005, Cunningham worked for [[Microsoft Corporation|Microsoft]] in the "Patterns & Practices" group. From October 2005 to May 2007, he held the position of Director of Committer Community Development at the [[Eclipse Foundation]]. In May 2009, he joined [[AboutUs.org|AboutUs]] as its chief technology officer.<ref name="pioneer" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rogoway |first=Mike |date=May 18, 2007 |title=Inventor of the wiki has a new job in Portland |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/business/2007/05/inventor_of_the_wiki_has_a_new.html |publisher=[[The Oregonian]] business blog}}</ref> On March 24, 2011 ''[[The Oregonian]]'' reported that Cunningham had departed AboutUs to join the [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice Beach]]-based CitizenGlobal, a startup working on crowd-sourced video content, as their chief technology officer and the Co-Creation Czar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Proven Leadership Team |url=http://www.citizenglobal.com/info/team |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512225221/http://www.citizenglobal.com/info/team |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |access-date=2012-05-08 |publisher=Citizen Global Website}}</ref> He remains "an adviser" with AboutUs.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rogoway |first=Mike |date=March 24, 2011 |title=Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, has a new job in SoCal |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2011/03/ward_cunningham_inventor_of_th.html |publisher=[[The Oregonian]] business blog}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 31, 2011 |title=Ward Cunningham Joins CitizenGlobal |url=http://blog.ratedstar.com/?p=206 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016052532/http://blog.ratedstar.com/?p=206 |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |publisher=Blog.ratedstar.com}}</ref> In April 2013, Cunningham left CitizenGlobal to work as a programmer at [[New Relic]].<ref name="relic" />