Thomas G. 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 total code.[1] Lane's contributions to open-source include: Organizer of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG),[2] Member of the core steering committee of PostgreS