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RIP Abraham Lempel – one of the fathers of the LZ(ZIP) compression algorithms
- hananbo 4y agoAbraham Lempel passed away at age of 87. Together with Jacob Ziv, He co-authored the LZ family compression algorithms which were later being used by ZIP,GIF,PNG,MP3 & PDF file types.
- up2isomorphism 4y agoHe is lucky in a sense that he lived a golden age of Algorithms.