Jacob Ziv Scientist

Jacob Ziv (Hebrew: יעקב זיו‎; born 1931) is an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

Personal facts

Jacob Ziv
Birth dateNovember 27, 1931
Birth place
Mandatory Palestine , Tiberias
Residence
Israel
Known for
LZ77 and LZ78

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Scientist

Field of study
Information theory

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External resources

  1. http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/ziv_1818761.cfm
  2. http://backup.itsoc.org/publications/nltr/96_dec/zivconv.html
  3. http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/z/Ziv:Jacob.html