Jacob Ziv
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Jacob Ziv (
Biography
Born in Tiberias, British mandate of Palestine, on 27 November 1931, Ziv received his B.Sc., Dip. Eng. (1954) and M.Sc. degrees (1957) in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his D.Sc. degree, receiving the degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962.[1] In 1970, Ziv joined the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and was the Herman Gross Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Technion Distinguished Professor.[2]
Ziv was dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 1974 to 1976 and vice president for Academic Affairs from 1978 to 1982.
From 1955 to 1959, he served as a senior research engineer for the Scientific Department of the
Ziv died on 25 March 2023, at age 91.[4][5]
Awards
In 1993, Ziv was awarded the
Ziv is the recipient of the 1997
Ziv was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003[12] and the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.[13]
See also
Lectures
- 1992 - Information measures of individual sequences with application to universal data compression and hypothesis testing Lecture sponsored by the Dept. of Electrical and Computer engineering, University of California, San Diego. Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. Digital Object Made Available by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
References
- ^ "Dist. Prof. Jacob Ziv 1931-2023". Technion - Israel Institute of Technology -. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Jacob Ziv". USC Viterbi | Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ a b c "Ziv Receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award | IEEE Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "The Israel Academy mourns the passing of its past President Prof. Jacob Ziv". www.academy.ac.il. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ Technology, TechnionIsrael Institute of. "The Technion Mourns the Passing of Distinguished Professor Jacob Ziv". cacm.acm.org. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1993" (in Hebrew). 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- IEEE. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- IEEE Information Theory Society. 1998. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- IEEE Information Theory Society. 1997. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ "Information and communication technologies 2008: Jacob Ziv". BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ "IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ "Jacob Ziv". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
External links
- A Conversation with Jacob Ziv (on his 65th birthday) Archived 1 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award 1977: Jacob Ziv
- Jacob Ziv at DBLP Bibliography Server