Paul Mockapetris
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Paul V. Mockapetris (born November 18, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).2
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Born Nov 18, 1948.1
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Early life and education
- Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology3
- Date not recordedUniversity of California, Irvine Doctor of Philosophy3 4
Mockapetris graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1966, received his bachelor's degrees in physics and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 and his doctorate in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine in 1982.
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Career
Occupation: programmer, scientist, computer scientist, patent inventor.7
In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System architecture in RFC 882 and RFC 883, while working at the USC Information Sciences Institute. He had recognized the problem in the early Internet (then ARPAnet) of holding name to address translations in a single table on the hosts file of an operating system. Instead he proposed a distributed and dynamic DNS database: essentially DNS as it exists today.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataPaul Mockapetris on Wikidata
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- 17WikidataNominum, Founder
- 18Wikimedia CommonsPaul Mockapetris photo by Jordiipa, CC BY-SA 3.0