{"id":38999,"date":"2023-04-07T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38999"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:07:31","slug":"abraham-lempel-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/07\/abraham-lempel-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lempel, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/business\/article\/hjdfzoa2o\">Ynet<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34688329\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/business\/article\/hjdfzoa2o\">\n<p>The first major milestone of Lempel&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsrnd.com\/tech\/2023-02-06-prof--avraham-lampel-passed-away---the-inventor-who-made-the-mp3-revolution-possible-israel-today.SygLW6ORno.html\">The Limited Times<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34687155\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/newsrnd.com\/tech\/2023-02-06-prof--avraham-lampel-passed-away---the-inventor-who-made-the-mp3-revolution-possible-israel-today.SygLW6ORno.html\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Lempel\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/07\/jacob-ziv-rip\/\">Jacob Ziv, RIP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ynet (via Hacker News): The first major milestone of Lempel&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-07T19:06:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"d161d701-1847-4d7d-9a4d-c0fd8eea922b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-07T19:07:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0WHXARhHTX2aTcD9juqSKw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,263,453,1520,1661,208],"class_list":["post-38999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-compression","tag-theory","tag-gif","tag-hp","tag-png","tag-rip"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39004,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38999\/revisions\/39004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}