Israeli computer pioneer passes away just weeks after famed research partner

Prof. Jacob Ziv, one of the prominent Israeli researchers in computer science and former president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, passed away Sunday aged 91.
Prof. Ziv, together with Prof. Abraham Lempel, who passed away in February at the age of 86, developed the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) data compression algorithm, which paved the way for the development of formats such as ZIP, PDF, and MP3.

#RIP #computerscience

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/bj2k2g0x3