Mark Adler | |
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.jpg) Mark Adler at JPL in 2002 | |
| Born | April 3, 1959 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of Florida, California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Adler-32, zlib |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Data compression, Space exploration |
| Institutions | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Wise |
| Website | https://madler.net/madler/ (old website archived at the Wayback Machine and Ghostarchive |
Mark Adler (born 1959) is an American software engineer. He is best known for his work in the field of data compression as the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, and a co-author together with Jean-loup Gailly of the zlib compression library[1] and gzip.[2] He has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format.[3][4] Adler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission.[5][6]
- ^ Gailly, Jean-loup; L. Peter Deutsch (May 1996). ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC1950. RFC 1950. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ^ "The gzip home page". July 27, 2003. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
gzip was written by Jean-loup Gailly…and Mark Adler for the decompression code.
- ^ Roelofs, Greg (March 14, 2009). "History of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Format". Retrieved June 29, 2015.
Within one week, most of the major features of PNG had been proposed, if not yet accepted: delta-filtering for improved compression (Scott Elliott and Mark Adler).…The true glory is really reserved for three people, however: Info-ZIP's Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler (both also of gzip fame), who originally wrote Zip's deflate() and UnZip's inflate() routines and then, for PNG, rewrote them as a portable library called zlib; and Guy Eric Schalnat of Group 42, who almost single-handedly wrote the libpng reference implementation (originally pnglib) from scratch.
- ^ Adler, Mark (2008-08-09). "About Mark Adler". Caltech Alumni Web Server. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- ^ "Mission Control: Who's at the Helm?". Mars Exploration Rover. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. January 3, 2004. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ^ "Zip Code Mars Contribution: Contributions to Mars Exploration". Mark Adler. NASA. February 2008. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2013-03-14.