| Tom Lane | |
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| Born | September 18, 1955 Madrid, Spain |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | US |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Known for | The Independent JPEG Group (IJG) PostgreSQL, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) |
Tom Lane is a computer scientist dedicated to Open source software. In a 2000 study, he was cited as one of the leading contributors to Open Source software.[1]
Tom Lane's contributions to Open source include:
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Tom holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, 1990.
Tom occasionally lectures at Carnegie Mellon University and other places.
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.
| “ | Probably the largest and most important contribution however was the work of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), and Tom Lane in particular. Their Open Source software implementation, as well as being one of the major Open Source packages was key to the success of the JPEG standard and was incorporated by many companies into a variety of products such as image editors and Internet browsers.[5] | ” |
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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