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Jacob Ziv

Jacob Ziv, Israeli electrical engineer, developed the LZ family of compression algorithms (born 1931)

Life at a glance

Died: 2023 · March 26

Their story

Who they were

Jacob Ziv was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai bound in estimation theory, with Moshe Zakai.

Why this date

Jacob Ziv appears on our March 26 calendar for 2023 as a death entry.

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March 26 2023.

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