Mark Adler

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 and gzip. He has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format. Adler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Mark Adler
Mark Adler at JPL in 2002
Born (1959-04-03) April 3, 1959
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Florida,
California Institute of Technology
Known forAdler-32, zlib
Scientific career
FieldsData compression, Space exploration
InstitutionsJet Propulsion Laboratory
Doctoral advisorMark Wise
Websitehttps://madler.net/madler/ (old website archived at the Wayback Machine and Ghostarchive
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