Roy Fielding Dissertation
Shu Manwill
REST is designed to be efficient for large-grain hypermedia data transfer,optimizing for the common case of the Web, but resulting in an interface thatis not optimal for other forms of architectural interaction.6
Luckily, there was this dissertation out there, written by a co-author of theHTTP/1.1 specification, that had something vaguely to do with extending HTTPand could offer FIOH a veneer of academic respectability. So REST wasappropriated to give cover for what was really just FIOH.
IRB approval of the dissertation study for students on catalog 2016 or later (IRB approval is required of all dissertation students, but is not a component requirement for advancement on earlier catalogs);
For all programs, external examiners may not have current or historical relationships which constitute real or apparent conflict of interest that could compromise the ability of the external examiner to provide unbiased review. Thus, the external will have no current or prior affiliation with Fielding as a student, faculty (regular or adjunct), staff, alumnus/a, or administrator.
When composing their dissertation committee, students may wish to have a faculty from a different Fielding doctoral program than their own, serve on their committees. While we are cognizant of potential human resource issues being raised by students utilizing dissertation committee members from other programs, our goal is to promote this collaborative practice as much as reasonable.
It is essential that the members of the dissertation committee have not only the requisite professional credentials, but that they are also free of conflicts of interest that could bias or have the appearance of biasing their judgment about the academic interests of the student and the scholarly merit of the dissertation.
Doctoral students must address the issue of potential conflicts of interest regarding data, support for dissertation research, and the composition of the dissertation committee. The student and dissertation committee chair have the responsibility to provide the dissertation committee with information on potential conflicts of interest or any arrangements concerning data sets.
Potential conflicts of interest with committee membership are when committee members stand to gain from specific results of the study or who may be relatives, friends, employers, or employees of the student.
Fielding Graduate University upholds the tradition that doctoral candidates have an obligation to make their research available to other scholars. This policy was developed to ensure the widest possible dissemination of student-authored dissertation research.
As of Fall 2019 students who wish to have physical copies of the dissertation may order bound copies directly from ProQuest after filing. ProQuest offers softbound, hardbound and author milestone bindery options.
The student is responsible for the dissertation under guidance from the faculty members and readers on the dissertation committee. This responsibility can in no way and to no extent is externalized to others. The student is fully responsible for the substance, methodology, quality, completeness, and appropriateness of the dissertation, and must understand all of the work sufficiently to be able to present it independently and justify and explain it to others.
Students sometimes receive assistance from other than committee members and readers with tasks such as editing, data collection, data management and data analysis. None of these tasks may be delegated completely to another individual. Assistance from someone other than a committee member or reader implies that this person has a secondary role in terms of effort and decision-making responsibility.
The dissertation committee members, and in particular the committee chair, should be consulted regarding assistance prior to obtaining it. In addition, the Institutional Review Board (IRB) application requires, among other things, detailed specification of the process of collecting data from participants. This is expected to include descriptions of who will be conducting the actual data collection, what the qualifications of such individuals are, and how they will be supervised by the author of the dissertation. The students should seek their guidance regarding how much assistance is appropriate and how much might exceed acceptable levels in the judgment of the committee. The student must identify in the dissertation those individuals who provided approved assistance and describe what was provided.
Students are encouraged to complete their FORs via web conferencing or similar technology if the school/program allows. FORs may also occur at a regularly scheduled Fielding event, such as national/research/clinical sessions, professional development seminars, cluster meetings, or New Student Orientations. Prior to an FOR being scheduled, the full dissertation committee must have reviewed and recommended approval of the dissertation upon the completion of revisions. It is permissible for the dissertation draft incorporating the required revisions to be reviewed only by the chair, and not the full committee. The chair of the committee and one committee member (determined by individual schools) authorize the scheduling of the FOR.
Final oral reviews need to be conducted at a Fielding residential event (e.g., national session, professional development seminar, or regional meeting) with one or more Fielding faculty being present in person. A minimum of two committee members, including the chair, must attend either via video conferencing or in person.
This policy only applies if the chair and student are in agreement to hold the FOR in this manner. The Chair is not required to agree to this FOR format. When the chair does not agree to attend virtually, then the Chair will need to be physically present at the FOR. Thus, such discussions should occur early in the dissertation process- especially when chair and student do not reside in the same area.
This policy encourages the scheduling of FORs outside of National Sessions. FORs may be virtual, via video-conferencing, or in-person at cluster meetings or other Fielding sessions. The University and the above listed programs require the dissertation chair plus at least one other faculty member of the core committee to be in attendance either in-person or virtually.
Doctoral and postdoctoral Respecialization students may assess for no more than 29 course units with a single faculty member unless further restricted by an individual program. Dissertation courses are excluded from this measure. The following programs have set these additional restrictions:
Roy Thomas Fielding (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and the originator of the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. He is an authority on computer network architecture and co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project.[1][2]
Fielding was born in 1965 in Laguna Beach, California. He describes himself as "part Maori, Kiwi, Yank, Irish, Scottish, British, and California beach bum".[4][5][6] In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review TR100 named him one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[7] In 2000, he received his doctorate from the University of California, Irvine.[8]
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, Fielding's doctoral dissertation, describes Representational State Transfer (REST) as a key architectural principle of the World Wide Web and received a large amount of attention. Computer engineers frequently hold up REST as an approach to developing web services,[8] as an alternative to other distributed-computing specifications such as SOAP. Fielding has also been heavily involved in the development of HTML and Uniform Resource Identifiers. Fielding co-founded the Apache HTTP Server project[9][10] and was a member of the interim OpenSolaris Boards until he resigned from the community in 2008.[11] He chaired the Apache Software Foundation for its first three years and sat on its board of directors until May 2014.[12]
Between 2001 and 2006, Fielding worked on Waka, an application protocol intended as "a binary, token-based replacement for HTTP".[13] It was "designed to match the efficiency of the REST architectural style".[14][15]
I finished my doctorate within theSoftwareResearch Group at UCI.Much of my work was done under the auspices of the Hyperware projectand collaborations with industry as part of theInstitute for Software Researchand its focus on SoftwareArchitecture.My research interests include software design, software architecturefor network-based applications, application-level protocol design, open-source software development, andglobal software engineering environments.Richard N. Taylor was my advisor and dissertationcommittee chair.
I have been actively involved in the World Wide Web project since1993. I set up the original UCI-ICSWWW server, created several WWW softwarepackages,and in early 1994 became involved in the effort to specify and improve the WWWinfrastructure through the IETF workinggroups on URI,HTTP,and HTML(the set of protocols that were used to retrieve and view this document).
I also cofounded the ApacheHTTP Server Project and am a member and former Board Chair of the nonprofitApache Software Foundation.We created the Apache HTTP server that currently dominates the survey ofpublic Internet websites. Apache is my favorite example ofthe power of global collaboration for the creation of software.
My dissertation,Architectural Styles andthe Design of Network-based Software Architectures, focused onthe rationale behind the design of the modern Web architecture and how itdiffers from other architectural styles.
What, you're still reading this? According to most hypertext research,you should have become bored by now and moved on to to another page.Well, this is for those who are extra curious (or just have nothing betterto do).My background is a bit odd: I was conceived in New Zealand and born inLaguna Beach,California. Although most of my schooling has been in the U.S., I was taught howto read during a school term in Auckland.My father is an emeritus professor in Social Sciences at UC Irvine,which is why I have been raised a Yank. I was born in September 1965,during the first week of classes of the year UCI was established, so youmight say that the two of us grew up together (except for the three yearsI spent studying Physics and International Politics atReed College). I am part Maori,Kiwi,Yank, Irish, Scot, Brit, andCalifornia beach bum.Like I said, a bit odd.
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