Brief Description: Primary architect of HTTP 1.1 and a founder of the Apache Web server
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Co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, all around perl guru, and MOMspider author, Roy T. Fielding has a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine, and has been actively involved in the World Wide Web project since 1993.
He was the primary architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1), co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), and a founder of several open-source software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server Project that produces the software for over 64% of public Internet web sites.
In 1999, MIT Technology Review named him as one of the top 100 "young innovators of the year."
His Ph.D. dissertation, "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures," defines the REST architectural style as a model for the design principles behind the modern Web architecture.
From 1999-2002 he was Chief Scientist, eBuilt, Irvine, California. Presently he is Chief Scientist, Day Software, Irvine, California.
In 1998 he wrote:
"Life is a distributed object system. However, communication among humans is a distributed hypermedia system, where the mind's intellect, voice+gestures, eyes+ears, and imagination are all components."
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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