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.
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 inculde ISR alumnus E. Jim Whitehead (associate professor at UC Santa Cruz) former IETF WebDAV chairman; Justin R. Erenkrantz (current ISR graduate student) ASF president and board member, httpd contributor; and ISR Alumnus Rohit Khare (4K Associates) mod_pub/sub co-author, ARRESTED architectural style author.