Jacob Ziv

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jacob Ziv (Hebrew: ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿; 1931-) is an Israeli computer scientist who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the lossless LZ77 compression algorithm. Ziv was born in Tiberias, British-ruled Palestine, on November 27, 1931. He received the B.Sc., Dip. Eng., and M.Sc. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1954, and 1957, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A., in 1962. Ziv joined the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1970 and is Herman Gross Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Technion Distinguished Professor. His research interests include data-compression, information theory and statistical communication.