The Israeli professor who actually made the world a better place with data compression
Follow Jan. 31, 2021 The personal story of Jacob Ziv, 89, is woven into the fabric of Israeli high-tech’s history. You’ve probably never heard of him, but you have certainly used technology based on his mathematical inventions - most famously lossless compression of data which enables us to use files like PDF, GIF, MP3 and countless others. Ziv was one of the first Israeli scientists who completed their doctoral studies abroad and returned to teach at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa. He introduced the use of transistors at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, headed ...
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