Professor Richard N. Taylor's web/hypermedia group in ISR at UC Irvine has been designing, implementing, evaluating, and promoting advanced hypermedia concepts which have formed the basis for significant contributions to the web. The results of many of these efforts are commonly used on a day-to-day basis by millions of users. Advances in Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Software Engineering, and Software Architecture Research (sponsored through a number of public and private organizations) has led to design of HTTP/1.1, WebDAV, REST, and host of other technologies created and fostered at UC Irvine.
Current Web research focuses on the CREST architectural style.
The Apache Software Foundation, which provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects, was founded by a group of eight webmasters which included ISR Alumnus Roy Fielding. Roy has served as the chairman of ASF and provided key conrtibutions to HTTP, URL, WebDAV, the REST architectural style, and the httpd server itself. Roy authored the original Apache Software License.
The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.
Other key ISR contributors to the web include ISR alumnus E. Jim Whitehead, Associate Professor at UC Santa Cruz, former IETF WebDAV chairman; alumnus Justin R. Erenkrantz, CTO of Project WBS, Apache Software Foundation President and Board Member, and httpd contributor; and ISR Alumnus Rohit Khare, Founder of Angstro.com, mod_pub/sub co-author, and ARRESTED architectural style author.
ISR Connector Newsletter Articles
- CREST: An Architectural Style for the Comptuation-Centric Web, Spring/Summer 2010, page 1.
- CREST: When REST Just Isn't Enough, Fall/Winter 2007, page 1.
- Spotlight on Contributions to the World Wide Web from ISR/UC Irvine, Spring/Summer 2007, page 6.
Poster
- Alumnus Justin Erenkrantz created a poster on ISR/UCI's Web Contributions in 2008.
People
Group LeaderCurrent ContributorsMichael Gorlick |
AlumsJoe Feise Rohit Khare |
