Jacob Ziv | |
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| Born | 27 November 1931 |
| 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.