Thomas G. Lane
| Tom Lane | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 18, 1955 Madrid, Spain |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality |
 US
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| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Known for |
Independent JPEG Group, PostgreSQL, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
Thomas G. (Tom) Lane is a computer scientist dedicated to open source software. In a 2000 survey he was listed as one of the top 10 contributors to an intended-to-be-representative sample of Open Source software, having contributed 0.782% of the code in the total sampled.
Tom Lane's contributions to Open source include:
Tom Lane holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, 1990. He occasionally lectures at Carnegie Mellon University and other places. He has worked for Hewlett Packard, Structured Software Systems, Great Bridge, Red Hat, Salesforce, and Crunchy Data.
In July 2000, Tom Lane was employed by Great Bridge, one of the first PostgreSQL support companies. However, the company was dissolved in September 2001 and Tom moved to Red Hat, a competitor of Great Bridge at the time, to develop their version of PostgreSQL called "Red Hat Database". The Red Hat Database project was later cancelled, but Tom continued to work there to develop PostgreSQL. Between May 2013 and October 2015, Tom worked at Salesforce.com. In 2015 Tom started working for Crunchy Data to allow more time to support the PostgreSQL community. Tom is part of the PostgreSQL core team.
Tom Lane is a member of the core PostgreSQL development team. He is involved in all aspects of PostgreSQL, including new features, performance improvements, and bug evaluation and fixes.
IJG is an informal group that writes and distributes a widely used free library for JPEG image compression. The IJG is arguably one of the important early open source groups and a major reason why the JPEG image format is a standard.
The IJG develops and maintains libjpeg, a library written entirely in C which contains a widely used implementation of a JPEG decoder, JPEG encoder and other JPEG utilities.
The original specification for the Portable Network Graphics (PNG), version 1.0, was written by Thomas Boutell and Tom Lane, with contributions by many others.
Tom Lane is a Contributing Editor for PNG Specification, Version 1.1.
Tom Lane is a member of the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) advisory committee.
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