Abraham Lempel
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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Abraham Lempel (
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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". S2CID 9267632.
See also
References
- ^ מת פרופ' אברהם למפל – האיש ששינה את מדעי המחשב (in Hebrew)
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- IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- IEEE. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
External links
- Abraham Lempel – GHN: IEEE Global History Network
- Abraham Lempel at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Technion: Computer Science Department: Prof. Abraham Lempel Archived 24 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- "Abraham Lempel: Senior HP Fellow". Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
- Abraham Lempel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project