REST and Roy Thomas Fielding

The term representational state transfer (REST) was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation at UC Irvine


Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist,[1] one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification, an authority on computer network architecture[2] and co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server project.

In 1999, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[3] He received a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine in 2000.