Tom Lane (computer Scientist)
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:
- 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
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