Richard Taylor

(ApMath'74, CompSci MS'76, PhD'80)

Professor emeritus 
Information and computer sciences 
University of California, Irvine

Award category: Education 

Established a 35-year career in software engineering research and education.

Led research group that produced the HTTP/1.1 protocol and other key web technologies.

Graduated 30 PhD students over the course of his career and laid foundations for the discipline of software architecture.

Contributed to making the University of California, Irvine one of the top institutions for software engineering research.

Served on three editorial boards for top journals in software engineering and has performed significant work for the Association for Computing Machinery.