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Jacob Ziv

IRL Name: 
Jacob Ziv
Biography: 

Jacob Ziv (1931 – 25 March 2023) was an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

Facts

Ziv died on 25 March 2023, at the age of 91, less than two months after Lempel.

He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1981 to his death, and he served as its president between 1995 and 2004.

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References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Ziv

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