Abraham Lempel

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Abraham Lempel
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Abraham Lempel (

lossless data compression algorithms
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Biography

Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received a B.Sc. in 1963, an M.Sc. in 1965, and a D.Sc.
in 1967. Since 1977 he held the title of full professor, and was a professor emeritus at Technion.

His historically-important works start with the presentation of the LZ77 algorithm in a paper entitled "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression" in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (May 1977), co-authored by Jacob Ziv.

Lempel was the recipient of the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the

IEEE Information Theory Society;[3] and the 2007 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for "pioneering work in data compression, especially the Lempel-Ziv algorithm".[4]

Lempel founded HP Labs—Israel in 1994, and served as its director until October 2007.

Lempel died on 4 February 2023, at age 86.

Works

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Bibliography

  • Jacob Ziv, Abraham Lempel (May 1977). "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression".
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