Tom Lane (computer scientist)
Tom Lane | |
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| Born | Thomas G. Lane September 18, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D., 1990) |
| Known for | Independent JPEG Group PostgreSQL Portable Network Graphics (PNG) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
Thomas G. 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 total code.
Lane's contributions to open-source include:
- Organizer of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG),
- Member of the core steering committee of PostgreSQL
- Co-author of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification
- Member of the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) advisory committee
- Contributor to the Ptolemy Project