Roy Fielding | |
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Born | Roy Thomas Fielding September 1965 (age 59) |
Alma mater | University of California, Irvine |
Known for | REST, Apache HTTP Server |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Thesis | Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (2000) |
Website | roy |
Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project.[1][2]
Fielding works as a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems in San Jose, California.[3]