https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lempel
"Abraham Lempel (Hebrew: אברהם למפל; 10 February 1936 – 4 February 2023) was an
Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless
data compression algorithms."
"The LZ77 and LZ78 algorithms authored by Lempel and Jacob Ziv have led to a
number of derivative works, including the Lempel–Ziv–Welch algorithm, used in
the GIF image format, and the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm, used in the
7-Zip and xz compressors. The algorithms have also been used as originally
published in formats such as DEFLATE, used in the PNG image format."
You would be hard pressed to find a computer or modern digital device that does
not contain his work.
Via Christoph S.
RIP,
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