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Jacob Ziv

b. 1931age 94Living

With Abraham Lempel, devised the LZ77 and LZ78 algorithms: compress data by replacing repetition with references to what came before, building the dictionary as you go so the decompressor can rebuild it without being told. ZIP, gzip, PNG and GIF are all descendants. Born in Tiberias under the British Mandate.

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