Mark Adler Scientist

Mark Adler (born April 3, 1959) may be best known for his work in the field of data compression. Adler is the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, a co-author of the zlib compression library and gzip, has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format.Adler was also the Spirit Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Personal facts

Mark Adler
Birth dateApril 03, 1959
Birth place
Miami
Nationality
United States
Citizenship
United States
Residence
La Cañada Flintridge California
Education
California Institute of Technology
University of Florida

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
Mark B. Wise
Field of study
Data compression
Space exploration

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