Abraham Lempel Scientist

Abraham Lempel (Hebrew: אברהם למפל‎, born 10 February 1936) is an Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

Personal facts

Abraham Lempel
Birth dateFebruary 10, 1936
Birth place
Poland , Second Polish Republic , Lviv , Ukraine
Residence
Israel
Known for
LZ77 and LZ78

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Scientist

awards
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Field of study
Information theory

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Abraham Lempel on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/indices/a-tree/l/Lempel:Abraham.html
  2. http://hpl.hp.com/about/bios/abraham_lempel.html
  3. http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/people/lempel
  4. http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2007_Bios/2007Hamming-Lempel.html