Lee Daniel Crocker

Описание: Lee Daniel Crocker
Lee Daniel Crocker born July 3, 1963 is an American computer programmer and poker player He is best known for rewriting the software upon which Wikipedia runs, to address scalability problems This software, originally known as "Phase III", went live in July 2002 and became the foundation of what is now called MediaWiki MediaWikis code repository was still named "phase3" until the move from Subversion to Git in March 2012
He was involved in the creation of the GIF, JPEG, and PNG image file formats, and appears as a co-author of the PNG specification He invented the per-scanline variable pre-filtering compression method used by PNG, the sum-of-abs heuristic used by many encoding programs,1 and proposed an early version of the Adam7 algorithm, using 5 passes rather than 7citation needed In 1998, he was one of the 23 original creators of the "Transhumanist Declaration"2
In June 2010, Crocker and others won the USENIX Advanced Computing Technical Association STUG award for contributions to the Wikipedia software
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