Tom Lane (computer scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tom Lane (computer scientist)

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1955

Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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 Contributor to the Ptolemy Project