Abraham Lempel | |
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Born | |
Died | 4 February 2023 | (aged 86)
Known for | LZ77 and LZ78 compression algorithms |
Awards | Paris Kanellakis Award (1997) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information theory |
Institutions | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Abraham Lempel (Hebrew: אברהם למפל; 10 February 1936 – 4 February 2023)[1] was an Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.