Paul Mockapetris

Paul V. Mockapetris
Paul Mockapetris in Barcelona in 2013
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California at Irvine
Known forInventing the Domain Name System
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science

Paul V. Mockapetris (born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).