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Roy Fielding

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.

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Known for
REST, Apache HTTP Server
Alma mater
University of California, Irvine
Born
Roy Thomas Fielding September 1965 (age 60) Laguna Beach, California
Fields
Computer science
Thesis
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (2000)

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