Jacob Ziv
Jacob Ziv · Technology & Engineering
Co-created the LZ family of data-compression algorithms.
1931, Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine — 2023, Haifa, Israel
Israel
Jacob Ziv is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-created the LZ family of data-compression algorithms.
Ziv, with Abraham Lempel, created the LZ77 and LZ78 data-compression algorithms that underlie ZIP, GIF, PNG and much of modern lossless compression. An Israeli, he was Jewish and a longtime professor at the Technion in Haifa.
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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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