Mark Adler
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Mark Adler at the JPL in 2002
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| Born |
April 3, 1959 Miami, Florida |
| Residence | La Cañada, California |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Fields | Data compression, Space exploration |
| Institutions | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Alma mater |
University of Florida, California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Wise |
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Website http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~madler/ |
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Mark Adler (born April 3, 1959) is an American software engineer, and has been heavily involved in space exploration. 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 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.
Adler was born in Miami, Florida, and raised as the only child of David and Bertha Adler. Adler earned his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and Master of Science in electrical engineering degrees from the University of Florida in 1981 and 1985, respectively. In 1990, Adler earned his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. Living in La Cañada, California, he lives with Diana St. James, and they have two children, Joshua and Zachary. Diana works at the California Institute of Technology and acts in and directs theatrical performances. Together with co-author Jean-loup Gailly, Adler received the 2009 USENIX Software Tools User Group (STUG) award for their contributions to FLOSS algorithms for data compression.
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