Abraham Lempel | |
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 Lempel in 2007 | |
| Born | 10 February 1936 |
| 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.
- ^ מת פרופ' אברהם למפל – האיש ששינה את מדעי המחשב (in Hebrew)