About: Roy T. Fielding is chief scientist at Day Software, a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and V.P., Apache HTTP Server. He is a founder of several open-source software projects, architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1) and REST architectural style, and co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). He received his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.