Rohit Khare is an Indian American computer scientist and

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who has been active in many aspects of the development of the

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. He is the founder of Ångströ, the co-founder of KnowNow, a former director of

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Labs and a key player in the

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community. He holds a Ph.D. from the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

and bachelor's degree from

Caltech The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

, both in Computer Science. He previously worked on

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for the

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. He is active in the Representational State Transfer (ReST) community, and in August 2007 wrote the ARRESTED paper on syndication-oriented architecture, a variant of

service-oriented architecture In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provide ...

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