Roy Fielding
Roy Thomas Fielding (* 1965 in Laguna Beach , California , USA ) is an American computer scientist, one of the lead authors of the HTTP specification, co-founder and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation .
Fielding received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine in 2000 for his dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures , which describes Representational State Transfer (REST) as a key architecture for the World Wide Web and received great recognition .
Web links
- http://roy.gbiv.com/ Roy Fielding Homepage
- Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures , PhD thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2000
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| SURNAME | Fielding, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fielding, Roy Thomas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist, lead author of the HTTP specification |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laguna Beach |