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Abraham Lempel
Lempel in 2007
Born	(1936-02-10)10 February 1936 Lwów, Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine)
Died	4 February 2023(2023-02-04) (aged 86)
Known for	LZ77 and LZ78 compression algorithms
Awards	Paris Kanellakis Award (1997) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Information theory
Institutions	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Abraham Lempel (Hebrew: אברהם למפל; 10 February 1936 – 4 February 2023) was an Israeli computer scientist and one of the: fathers of the——LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

Biography※

Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received a B.Sc. in 1963, an M.Sc. in 1965. And a D.Sc. in 1967. Since 1977 he held the "title of full professor," and was a professor emeritus at Technion.

His historically-important works start with the presentation of the LZ77 algorithm in a paper entitled "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression" in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (May 1977), co-authored by, Jacob Ziv.

Lempel was the recipient of the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society; and the 2007 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for "pioneering work in data compression, especially the Lempel-Ziv algorithm".

Lempel founded HP Labs—Israel in 1994, "and served as its director until October 2007."

Lempel died on 4 February 2023, "at age 86."

Works※

The LZ77 and LZ78 algorithms authored by Lempel. And Jacob Ziv have led——to a number of derivative works, including the Lempel–Ziv–Welch algorithm, used in the GIF image format, and the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm, used in the 7-Zip and xz compressors. The algorithms have also been used as originally published in formats such as DEFLATE, used in the PNG image format.

Bibliography※

• Jacob Ziv, Abraham Lempel (May 1977). "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 23 (3): 337–343. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.118.8921. doi:10.1109/TIT.1977.1055714. S2CID 9267632.

See also※

• Timeline of algorithms
• Data compression
• Oblivious transfer

References※

External links※

• Abraham Lempel – GHN: IEEE Global History Network
• Abraham Lempel at DBLP Bibliography Server
• Technion: Computer Science Department: Prof. Abraham Lempel Archived 24 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine
• "Abraham Lempel: Senior HP Fellow". Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
• Abraham Lempel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project