On Sunday February 4, Professor Abraham Lempel, father of the lossless data compression algorithm, passed away at the age of 86, just 6 days short of his 87th birthday. Those who were connected to him say his mind stayed sharp even in his advanced years.
Lempel, along with Jacob Ziv and Terry Welch, had built a universal lossless data compression algorithm in 1984 called the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) or the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which revolutionized data compression.
The LZ algorithm can be found in virtually every modern computer. We use it often without being aware of it, archiving files; installing software from compressed files; downloading music, creating images in PNG format, backing up hard drives, and going online.
Professor Abraham Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He came to Israel as an orphan with a group of children who were rescued from Nazi-run Europe and then raised on a kibbutz for kids. He then made his way through Israel's most influential academic institutions, joined the research unit for HP called Hewlett-Packard Labs in California and opened the HP Lab branch in Israel. He was an IEEE or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and a Senior Fellow at HP. Lempel has eight US patents and more than 90 published research papers in the field of information theory.
Lempel, along with Jacob Ziv and Terry Welch, had built a universal lossless data compression algorithm in 1984 called the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) or the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which revolutionized data compression.
The LZ algorithm can be found in virtually every modern computer. We use it often without being aware of it, archiving files; installing software from compressed files; downloading music, creating images in PNG format, backing up hard drives, and going online.
Professor Abraham Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He came to Israel as an orphan with a group of children who were rescued from Nazi-run Europe and then raised on a kibbutz for kids. He then made his way through Israel's most influential academic institutions, joined the research unit for HP called Hewlett-Packard Labs in California and opened the HP Lab branch in Israel. He was an IEEE or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and a Senior Fellow at HP. Lempel has eight US patents and more than 90 published research papers in the field of information theory.
On Sunday February 4, Professor Abraham Lempel, father of the lossless data compression algorithm, passed away at the age of 86, just 6 days short of his 87th birthday. Those who were connected to him say his mind stayed sharp even in his advanced years.
Lempel, along with Jacob Ziv and Terry Welch, had built a universal lossless data compression algorithm in 1984 called the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) or the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which revolutionized data compression.
The LZ algorithm can be found in virtually every modern computer. We use it often without being aware of it, archiving files; installing software from compressed files; downloading music, creating images in PNG format, backing up hard drives, and going online.
Professor Abraham Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He came to Israel as an orphan with a group of children who were rescued from Nazi-run Europe and then raised on a kibbutz for kids. He then made his way through Israel's most influential academic institutions, joined the research unit for HP called Hewlett-Packard Labs in California and opened the HP Lab branch in Israel. He was an IEEE or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and a Senior Fellow at HP. Lempel has eight US patents and more than 90 published research papers in the field of information theory.
Lempel, along with Jacob Ziv and Terry Welch, had built a universal lossless data compression algorithm in 1984 called the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) or the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which revolutionized data compression.
The LZ algorithm can be found in virtually every modern computer. We use it often without being aware of it, archiving files; installing software from compressed files; downloading music, creating images in PNG format, backing up hard drives, and going online.
Professor Abraham Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He came to Israel as an orphan with a group of children who were rescued from Nazi-run Europe and then raised on a kibbutz for kids. He then made his way through Israel's most influential academic institutions, joined the research unit for HP called Hewlett-Packard Labs in California and opened the HP Lab branch in Israel. He was an IEEE or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and a Senior Fellow at HP. Lempel has eight US patents and more than 90 published research papers in the field of information theory.
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