eBuilt's Fielding Recognized by UC Irvine as Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year; Chief Scientist to be Honored for Contributions in Technology at University, in Community

Business Wire, May 10, 2000

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2000

Roy T. Fielding, chief scientist at eBuilt, Inc, a leading designer and builder of industrial-strength e-business, will be honored as Outstanding Graduate Student by the University of California at Irvine's Alumni Association.

Fielding is widely recognized for his influential technical contributions and is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Irvine. The Lauds and Laurels Award are given to a graduate student of high academic achievement who has made a significant contribution to the school or to the community at large.

He is the architect of the current version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1), co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) and a founder of several open-source software projects. Fielding currently serves as chairman of the board for the Apache Software Foundation. For more information on Roy T. Fielding, see his Web page www.ics.uci/~fielding.> "This award is given after careful scrutiny of a candidate's contributions, character, and academic record," said Professor Richard Taylor, director of UCI's Institute for Software Research. "Roy Fielding has clearly distinguished himself through contributions in his profession and in his mentoring relationships here at the university. He has set an outstanding example and inspired many other students."

The award will be presented by Beverley Sandeen, executive director of the Alumni Association, at a reception and dinner at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel on Thursday, May 11.

Fielding was recently honored as one of the "Top 100 Young Innovators of 1999" by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation. As chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, he accepted the ACM Software Systems Award for the group's pioneering work on the Apache Web Server.

Fielding earned bachelor's and master's degrees in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in information and computer science at the University of California, Irvine, working on his dissertation: "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures." For more information on Roy T. Fielding, see his Web page www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding.> About eBuilt(TM): Builders of Industrial-Strength e-Business(TM)

eBuilt designs and builds industrial-strength e-businesses. The company provides custom applications development and integration services to build reliable, robust and scalable Web infrastructures for new and existing e-businesses.

eBuilt is composed of three divisions to innovate and build Internet technologies: eServices designs and builds custom Web infrastructures; ePlans provides e-business plan authoring and enhancement services; eLabs conceives, incubates and launches eBuilt's own products and services for the Internet. The company has headquarters in Irvine, Calif. For additional information, visit www.eBuilt.com.

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