Jean-Loup Gailly
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Jean-Loup Gailly - is an author of gzip. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked over zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler.
He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book.
From 1990 to 1995, he designed the real-time executive of the ChorusOS microkernel.
From 1999 to 2001, he was the CTO of Mandrakesoft.
Since October 2006, he works at Google as a Tech. Lead Manager.
His interests include computer security and the game of Go.
External links
- Jean-Loup's home page
- Jean-Loup Gailly On gzip, go, And Mandrake, an interview on Slashdot
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