Jean-Loup Gailly, [1] a French astronomer, computer scientist, Tech Lead Manager at Google Switzerland, and before CTO at Mandrakesoft and CIO and Chief software architect at Vision IQ and Poseidon [2]. His interests include data compression, computer security and the game of Go. Jean-Loup Gailly is author of gzip, and worked in collaboration with Mark Adler on the zlib library. Along with Petr Baudiš, he is co-author of the world-class Go playing program Pachi [3], and focuses on Cluster Parallelization of Monte-Carlo Tree Search.
Jean-Loup Gailly [4]

Selected Publications

• Jean-Loup Gailly, James Lequeux, Jean-Louis Masnou (1978). The z-distribution and Birthrate of Pulsars from the New Molonglo Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 70
• Mark Nelson, Jean-Loup Gailly (1995). The Data Compression Book. 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 1-55851-434-1, amazon
• Petr Baudiš, Jean-Loup Gailly (2011). Pachi: State of the Art Open Source Go Program. Advances in Computer Games 13, pdf

External Links

• Jean-Loup Gailly from Wikipedia
• Jean-loup's home page
• Jean-loup's Go page
• Jean-Loup Gailly' ICGA Tournaments
• Details of Programmer: Gailly, Jean-loup Computer Go information
• Jean-Loup Gailly On gzip, Go, and Mandrake, an interview on Slashdot, March 10, 2000
• Android tips by Jean-Loup Gailly

References

1. ^ You can call me either Jean-loup or Jean-Loup, but not Jean or Mr. Loup!, from Jean-loup's home page
2. ^ Vision IQ and Poseidon
3. ^ Pachi - Board Game of Go / Weiqi / Baduk
4. ^ Jean-loup Gailly interview - Planete Linux

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