Abraham Lempel
Abraham Lempel · Technology & Engineering
Co-created the LZ family of data-compression algorithms.
1936, Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) — 2023, Israel
Israel
Abraham Lempel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-created the LZ family of data-compression algorithms.
Abraham Lempel was an Israeli computer scientist at the Technion who, with Jacob Ziv, created the LZ family of lossless data-compression algorithms (LZ77 and LZ78). These underlie ubiquitous formats such as GIF, PNG and ZIP and much of modern digital compression. He was Jewish and a Holocaust survivor.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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Co-created the LZ family of data-compression algorithms.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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