Mark Adler was born on 1959 and is an American software engineer.
11 Facts About Mark Adler
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Mark Adler 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.
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Mark Adler has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics image format.
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Mark Adler was born in Miami, Florida and raised as the only child of David and Bertha Mark Adler.
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Mark 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.
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In 1999 and early 2000, Mark Adler was the Mission and Systems Manager and Chief Engineer for the Mars Sample Return project, which was to launch three missions in 2003 and 2005 to bring Martian samples back to Earth in 2008.
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Mark Adler initiated and led a three-and-a-half-week study on the concept that was later selected as the Mars Exploration Rover mission for 2003.
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Mark Adler has served as the Deputy Mission System Manager, the Acting Project Engineer, the Deputy Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations Manager, the Landing Site Selection Engineer, and the Spirit Mission Manager.
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Mark Adler is currently the project chief of the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator.
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Mark Adler is an instrument-rated private pilot, a certified scuba diver, and an amateur theater actor.
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Together with co-author Jean-loup Gailly, Mark Adler received the 2009 USENIX Software Tools User Group award for their contributions to FLOSS algorithms for data compression.