Jacob Ziv | |
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Born | |
Died | 25 March 2023 | (aged 91)
Education | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (B.Sc., M.Sc.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (D.Sc.) |
Known for | LZ77, LZ78 |
Awards | Israel Prize (1993) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1995) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information theory |
Institutions | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Ministry of Defense Bell Laboratories |
Jacob Ziv (Hebrew: יעקב זיו; 27 November 1931 – 25 March 2023) was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel.