Recently it became known about the death of the scientist Abraham Lempel (Abraham Lempel). He is known for developing lossless data compression algorithms that are now widely used on the Internet and modern operating systems.
Abraham LempellLempel was born in 1936 in Lvov, later he emigrated to Israel, where he studied at the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. There he developed algorithms for data compression together with Jacob Ziv. Subsequently, these developments formed the basis of the MP3, ZIP, PDF, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats. The completed algorithm appears in 1978.
Note that modern data compression technologies used in memory modules of electronic devices are also based on these developments.
The MP3 audio format became known in the early 2000s for its small file size and good sound quality, which was important to the Internet users of the day. Now this standard is already outdated, but it is still widely used. Let’s not forget…
Source: VG Times