Abraham Lempel, RIP
Ynet (via Hacker News):
The first major milestone of Lempel’s oeuvre came in 1977 when he and his colleague Prof. Jacob Ziv published LZ77, the first version of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which was followed up the very next year with LZ78.
The Limited Times (via Hacker News):
He taught electrical engineering and computer science at the Technion and in 1981-1984 served as the dean of the Taub Computer Science Faculty. In 1993 he was recruited to HP Laboratories and a year later he founded and managed HP Laboratories Israel.
See also: Wikipedia.
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