[HN Gopher] IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer...
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       IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2021-01-17 15:07 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | infocollector wrote:
       | Well deserved. Just in case you were not aware of the variants of
       | LZ[iv] for dictionary based (or sliding window based) lossless
       | compression -> https://tinyurl.com/y3h76c4j
        
       | madmadjo wrote:
       | Congratulations!
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       | Back when I attended faculty, I had a project assigned to me
       | titled "Lempel-Ziv compression of binary strings" or something
       | like that. It was one of the most fun projects I worked on.
        
       | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
       | Although the family of algorithms is called LempeLl-Ziv, Ziv was
       | the primary author, so it should really be called ziv-Lempel
        
       | jl6 wrote:
       | In an alternate universe, the etymology of "ZIP" would be derived
       | from Ziv, plus a P for Phil Katz.
        
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