Paul Mockapetris

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computer scientist engineer human inventor

Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), a foundational technology of the modern internet.

Aliases (2)

Paul V. Mockapetris ×3
P. V. Mockapetris ×1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	computer scientist → engineer → human → inventor →
awardReceived	ACM SIGCOMM Award → IEEE Internet Award → Internet Hall of Fame induction →
contributedTo	design of core Internet infrastructure →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
designed	distributed DNS database → hierarchical domain name space →
developed	DNS protocol → Domain Name System →
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology → University of California, Irvine →
employer	University of Southern California →
familyName	Mockapetris →
fieldOfWork	computer networking → computer science → internet technology →
givenName	Paul →
honor	inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame →
influenced	scalability of the Internet →
knownFor	design of DNS → inventing the Domain Name System →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Internet Architecture Board → Internet Engineering Task Force →
name	Paul Mockapetris →
nationality	American →
notableIdea	separation of host names from IP addresses via DNS →
notableWork	Domain Name System →
occupation	computer scientist → engineer → technology executive →
positionHeld	chairman of Nominum → chief scientist of Nominum →
standardizedIn	RFC 1034 → RFC 1035 → RFC 882 → RFC 883 →
workedAt	Information Sciences Institute → USC Information Sciences Institute →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
RFC 1034 ("Paul V. Mockapetris") → RFC 1035 ("P. V. Mockapetris") → RFC 1035 ("Paul V. Mockapetris") → RFC 882 → RFC 883 ("Paul V. Mockapetris") →	author
Domain Name System →	createdBy
Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award →	hasNotableRecipient
Paul Mockapetris →	name