From John Alexander's Blog, I found a link to an article in the Seattle PI about Ward Cunningham joining Microsoft. The article focuses primarily on descibing wikis, but it does mention he now works for PAG doing pattern work. I liked this quote:
"I write the seed of the idea and I come back in a week and see how the idea has grown."
It's also interesting to see that it took a month and a half for the news to go from blogs to a "mainstream" news source.