Paul Mockapetris

Paul V. Mockapetris
Paul V. Mockapetris
	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
Awards	IEEE Internet Award (2003); ACM Fellow (2004); SIGCOMM Award (2005); Software System Award (2019);
	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).

Paul V. Mockapetris
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
Awards	IEEE Internet Award (2003) ACM Fellow (2004) SIGCOMM Award (2005) Software System Award (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science