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Abraham Lempel

Abraham Lempel
Lempel in 2007
Born(1936-02-10)10 February 1936
Died4 February 2023(2023-02-04) (aged 86)
Known forLZ77 and LZ78 compression algorithms
AwardsParis Kanellakis Award (1997)
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsInformation theory
InstitutionsTechnion - 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.


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