Mark Adler

Mark Adler ( born April 3, 1959 in Miami) is an American computer scientist and aerospace engineer.

Adler studied Mathematics (Bachelor 1981) and Electrical Engineering ( Master 1985) at the University of Florida. In 1990 he received his doctorate in physics at Caltech. He then worked for Hughes Aircraft on various projects such as data compression. 1992 to 1995 he was involved in conducting the Cassini-Huygens mission (Lead Engineer for Cassini mission ) and then at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory senior engineer for unmanned exploration missions to Mars. He led the development of planned missions, which should bring back soil samples (Mars Sample Return Project), but after the failure of the Mars Polar Lander was not realized, and held senior positions in the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, 2003 at JPL (including for exploration with the Spirit rover ).

He is co -author of the zlib library ( and named after him checksum algorithm Adler -32), gzip (both with Frenchman Jean- Loup Gailly ) and Info-ZIP. He was also involved in the PNG format.