"Standing on protocol"

(Occasionally, the University of California newsroom reposts my stories, which I appreciate.)

By Kathryn Bold, UC Irvine Monday, April 14, 2014

Before alumnus Roy Fielding settled on his dissertation topic at UC Irvine, he did a bit of writing that arguably changed the world.

In the early 1990s, the software researcher at the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences (then the ICS department) helped put a vast virtual world at the fingertips of computer users everywhere. The familiar HTTP acronym at the start of Web addresses is the standard — or protocol — for transferring documents. Fielding was a principal author of the version still in use today.
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