Roy Fielding

Roy Fielding
Fielding speaking at OSCON08
Born
Roy Thomas Fielding

September 1965 (age 59)
Alma materUniversity of California, Irvine
Known forREST, Apache HTTP Server
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
ThesisArchitectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (2000)
Websiteroy.gbiv.com

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]

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