Lee Daniel Crocker

Lee Daniel Crocker (born July 3, 1963) is an American computer programmer. 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. MediaWiki's code repository was still named "phase3" until the move from Subversion to Git in March 2012.

Lee Daniel Crocker
Lee Daniel Crocker at Free Culture Conference, 2008
Born
Lee Daniel Crocker

(1963-07-03) July 3, 1963
Valdosta, Georgia, United States
NationalityUnited States
OccupationComputer Programmer
Lee Daniel Crocker at Internet Archive, 2008

He is a co-author of the PNG specification, and was also involved in the creation of the GIF and JPEG image file formats. 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 7. In 1998, he was one of the 23 original creators of the "Transhumanist Declaration".[2] As of 1999, he was a member of the Extropians futurist society.[3]

In June 2010, Crocker and others won the USENIX Advanced Computing Technical Association STUG award for contributions to the Wikipedia software.

See also

References
  1. Friedland, Gerald; Jain, Ramesh (July 28, 2014). Multimedia Computing. Cambridge University Press. p. 151. ISBN 0521764513.
  2. More, Max; Vita-More, Natasha (March 5, 2013). "Transhumanist Declaration 2012". The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 1118555996.
  3. Brin, David (1999). The Transparent Society. Basic Books. p. 102.
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