Paul V. Mockapetris | |
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Paul Mockapetris in Barcelona in 2013 | |
Born | 1948 (age 75–76) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California at Irvine |
Known for | Inventing the Domain Name System |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Paul V. Mockapetris (born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).