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Mark Adler

Biography

Mark Adler (born 1959) is an American software engineer. He 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. He has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format. Adler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

60 releases · 5 albums · active 1984–2014

  • Performance · 160
  • Production · 10
  • Other credits · 4

Studios: Russian Hill Recording · OTR Studios · Fantasy Studios · Earle-Tones Music

Frequent collaborators

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