| Prof. Wilhelm Schickard |
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* 22.04.1592 - † 23.10.1635
1623: invented mankind's first automatic calculator |
|
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| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz |
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* 01.07.1646 - 14.11.1716
1679: invented the bit and the binary system |
|
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| Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss |
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* 30.04.1777 - † 23.02.1855
1809: invented the matrix inversions |
|
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| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
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* 21.03.1768 - † 16.05.1830
1821: invented the Fourier transform |
|
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| Samuel Finley Breeze Morse |
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* 27.04.1791 - † 02.04.1872
1838: invented the Morse code |
|
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| Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow |
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* 22.08.1860 - † 24.08.1940
1884: invented the term 'picture elements' |
|
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| Andrey Andreyevich Markov |
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* 14.06.1856 - † 20.07.1922
1906: invented the Markov chains |
|
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| Alfréd Harr |
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* 11.10.1885 - † 16.03.1933
1909: invented first wavelet function (simple square waveform) |
|
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| Kurt Gödel |
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* 28.04.1906 - † 14.01.1978
1931: founder of theoretical computer science |
|
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| Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov |
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* 25.04.1903 - † 20.10.1987
1932: improved Markov chains |
|
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| Konrad Zuse |
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* 22.06.1910 - † 18.12.1995
1941: created world's first fully functional programmable computer |
|
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| Dr. Alan Mathison Turing |
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* 23.06.1912 - † 07.06.1954
1942: designed world's first decoder (to decrypt the Luftwaffe's Enigma code) |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Robert Mario Fano |
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* 11.09.1917
1949: invented Shannon-Fano encoding |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Claude Elwood Shannon |
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* 30.04.1916 - † 24.02.2001
1949: invented Shannon-Fano encoding |
|
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| Dr. David Albert Huffmann |
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* 09.08.1925 - † 07.10.1999
1952: invented variable length encoding |
|
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| Prof. Peter Elias |
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* 23.11.1923 - † 07.12.2001
1954: paper on Error-free Coding |
|
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| Prof. Peter Elias |
|
* 23.11.1923 - † 07.12.2001
1955: paper on Coding for Noisy Channels |
|
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| Prof. Irving S. Reed |
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born in 1923
1960: invented error correction code (ECC) |
|
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| Dr. Gustave Solomon |
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* 27.10.1931 - † 31.01.1996
1960: invented error correction code (ECC) |
|
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| Prof. Thomas Greenway Stockham |
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* 22.12.1933 - † 06.01.2004
1962: done first digital audio tape recording |
|
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| Solomon W. Golomb |
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born in 1932
1966: invented Golomb coding |
|
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| May Glen Culler |
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birthday unknown
1966: proposed realtime speech encoding based on signal decomposition (Gabor wavelet analysis) |
|
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| Shuzo Saito |
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* 12.01.1924 ?
1966: described approach to automatic phoneme discrimination (invention of linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Fumitada Itakura |
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born in 1940
1966: described approach to automatic phoneme discrimination (invention of linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Manfred Robert Schröder |
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* 12.07.1926
1967: invented linear prediction (for linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
|
| Dr. Bishnu Atal |
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* 10.05.1933
1967: invented linear prediction (for linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
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| Dr. John Parker Burg |
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born in 1931
1967: outlined maximum entropy approach (for linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
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| Robert F. Rice |
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born in 1944
1971: invented Rice coding |
|
|
| James R. Plaunt |
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born in May 1947
1971: invented Rice coding |
|
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| Dr. Robert E. Kahn |
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birthday unknown
1972: started first developments in packetized speech (for linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
|
| James W. Forgie |
 |
birthday unknown
1972: started first developments in packetized speech (for linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
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| Dave Walden |
 |
birthday unknown
1972: started first developments in packetized speech (for linear predictive coding (LPC)) |
|
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| Dr. Vinton G. Cerf |
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* 23.06.1943
1972: started invention & development of TCP/IP protocol |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Robert E. Kahn |
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* 23.12.1938
1972: started invention & development of TCP/IP protocol |
|
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| Prof. Neil J. A. Sloane |
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* 23.12.1938
1973: wrote book on 'A Short Course on Error-Correcting Codes' |
|
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| Prof. Robert M. Gray |
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birthday unknown
1974: wrote paper on source coding over simple networks |
|
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| Aaron D. Wyner |
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* 17.03.1939 - † 29.09.1997
1974: wrote paper on source coding over simple networks |
|
|
| Dr. Kamisetty R. Rao |
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birthday unknown
1974: invented discrete cosine transform (DCT, lossy JPEG algorithm) |
|
|
| Dr. Nasir Ahmed |
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born in 1940
1974: invented discrete cosine transform (DCT, lossy JPEG algorithm) |
|
|
| T. Natarajan |
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birthday unknown
1974: invented discrete cosine transform (DCT, lossy JPEG algorithm) |
|
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| Prof. Thomas Greenway Stockham |
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* 22.12.1933 - † 06.01.2004
1976: made the first commercial digital recording (Santa Fe Opera) |
|
|
| Prof. Abraham Lempel (HP Labs) |
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born in 1936
1977: invented LZ algorithm |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Jacob Ziv |
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* 27.11.1931
1977: invented LZ algorithm |
|
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| Prof. Jorma Rissanen |
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birthday unknown
1978: invented minimum description length (statistical modelling) and therefore invented arithmetic coding |
|
|
| Prof. Glen G. Langdon |
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birthday unknown
1978: coinvented arithmetic coding |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Dieter Seitzer |
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born in 1933
1979: developed first signal processor for audio encoding with his team |
|
|
| Terry A. Welch |
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birthday unknown, died 1985
1979: improved LZ algorithm (LZW) |
|
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| G.N.N. Martin |
|
birthday unknown
1979: invented Range coding |
|
|
| Prof. Wojciech Szpankowski |
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birthday unknown
1982: invented a method of channel switching in a computer network |
|
|
| Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer |
|
birthday unknown
1983: invented first compressor (RLE) |
|
|
| Vernon Buerg |
 |
birthday unknown
1983: founded shareware as a software branch |
|
|
| Prof. Ian H. Witten |
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birthday unknown
1984: invented PPM algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. John G. Cleary |
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birthday unknown
1984: invented PPM algorithm |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Manfred Robert Schröder |
|
* 12.07.1926
1985: invented CELP (Code Excited Linear Prediction) |
|
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| Dr. Bishnu Atal |
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* 10.05.1933
1985: invented CELP (Code Excited Linear Prediction) |
|
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| Phillip Walter Katz |
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* 03.11.1962 - † 14.04.2000
1986: invented PKARC format |
|
|
| Jon Louis Bentley |
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born in February of 1953
1986: invented MTF algorithm |
|
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| Joint Photographic Expert Group |
|
birthday unknown
1986: invented JPEG format |
|
|
| Prof. Daniel Dominic K. Sleator |
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birthday unknown
1986: invented MTF algorithm |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Robert Endre Tarjan |
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* 30.04.1948
1986: invented MTF algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. Victor Wei Keh-Wei |
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birthday unknown
1986: invented MFT algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Raymond Lau |
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born in 1971
1986: invented StuffIt compression (SIT) |
|
|
| Prof. Neil J. A. Sloane |
|
birthday unknown
1986: invented Multi-Dimensional Coding For Error Reduction |
|
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| Prof. Robert Calderbank |
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birthday unknown
1986: invented Multi-Dimensional Coding For Error Reduction |
|
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| Prof. Peter Elias |
|
* 23.11.1923 - † 07.12.2001
1987: paper on Interval and Recency Rank Source Coding: Two On-line Adaptive Variable-length Schemes |
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| The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
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| 1987: invented first realtime codec of LC-ATC algorithm (for later MP3) |
|
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| Dipl.-Ing. Harald Popp |
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born in 1956
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
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| Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Krägeloh |
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born in 1960
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
|
| Hartmut Schott |
|
birthday unknown
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
|
| Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Grill |
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born in 1961
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
|
| Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser |
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born in 1946
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
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| Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Eberlein |
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born in 1958
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
|
| Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg |
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born in 1954
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
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| Dr.-Ing. Thomas Sporer |
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born in 1964
1987: Member of The Fraunhofer Audio Team 1987 |
|
|
| Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer |
|
birthday unknown
1987: invented first cmp library (BitPack) |
|
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| Prof. Gordon V. Cormack |
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birthday unknown
1987: invented Dynamic Markov Modelling |
|
|
| Prof. Ian H. Witten |
|
birthday unknown
1987: invented CACM algorithm |
|
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| Prof. Radford M. Neal |
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* 12.09.1956
1987: invented CACM algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. John G. Cleary |
|
birthday unknown
1987: invented CACM algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. R. Nigel S. Horspool |
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birthday unknown
1987: invented Dynamic Markov Modelling |
|
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| International Standardisation Organisation ISO |
|
birthday unknown
1988: founded Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) |
|
|
| Dr. Michael Fielding Barnsley |
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born in 1946
1988: invented Fractal image compression |
|
|
| Dr. Ross N. Williams |
 |
birthday unknown
1988: invented DHPC / SAKDC algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. Haruhiko Okumura |
 |
birthday unknown
1988: invented LHA format |
|
|
| Dr. Haruyasu Yoshizaki |
|
birthday unknown
1988: invented LHA format |
|
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| Moving Picture Experts Group |
 |
founded in 1989
1989: first proposal for MPEG-1 specification |
|
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| Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg |
|
born in 1954
1989: finished thesis of OCF algorithm (optimum coding in the Frequency Domain) (for later MP3) |
|
|
| Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Grill |
|
born in 1961
1989: wrote realtime codec of OCF algorithm (for later MP3) |
|
|
| Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser |
|
born in 1946
1989: supervised writing of OCF realtime codec |
|
|
| James Andrew Storer |
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birthday unknown
1989: improved dictionary based data compression |
|
|
| Phillip Walter Katz |
|
* 03.11.1962 - † 14.04.2000
1989: invented PKZIP format |
|
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| Moving Picture Experts Group |
|
founded in 1989
1990: adressed the MPEG-2 standard |
|
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| Prof. Timothy C. Bell |
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born in 1962
1990: wrote book on text compression |
|
|
| Robert K. Jung |
|
birthday unknown
1990: invented ARJ & JAR format |
|
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| Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg & Uni Hannover & AT&T & Thomson |
|
born in 1954
1991: improved OCF algorithm (ASPEC, Adaptive Spectral Perceptual Entropy Coding) (for later MP3) |
|
|
| Dr. Jürgen Herre |
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born in 1962
1991: added joint stereo mode to ASPEC algorithm (for later MP3) |
|
|
| Jean-Loup Gailly |
 |
birthday unknown
1991: invented GZIP format |
|
|
| Paul G. Howard |
 |
birthday unknown
1991: improved Arithmetic coder |
|
|
| Jeffrey Scott Vitter |
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* 13.11.1955
1991: improved Arithmetic coder |
|
|
| Dr. Ross N. Williams |
|
birthday unknown
1991: improved LZW algorithm (LZRW) |
|
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| Prof. Thomas M. Cover |
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* 07.08.1938
1991: wrote book: elements of information theory |
|
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| Prof. Ingrid Daubechies |
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* 17.08.1954
1991: invented discrete wavelet transform (DWT) (used in lossy JPEG2000) |
|
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| Moving Picture Experts Group |
|
founded in 1989
1992: approved MPEG-1 standards |
|
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| Dr. Tony Robinson |
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born in 1963
1992: invented lossless audio cmp. (Shorten) |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Allen Gersho |
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born in 1963
1992: wrote book 'vector quantization and signal compression' |
|
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| Moving Picture Experts Group |
|
founded in 1989
1993: began works on MPEG-4 standard |
|
|
| Bulat Ziganshin |
 |
birthday unknown
1993: invented static context modelling |
|
|
| Nicola Ferioli |
 |
birthday unknown
1993: released first lossless audio compressor |
|
|
| Michael Burrows |
 |
birthday unknown
1994: invented BWT algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. David John Wheeler |
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* 09.02.1927 - † 13.12.2004
1994: invented BWT algorithm |
|
|
| Moving Picture Experts Group |
|
founded in 1989
1994: approved first 3 parts of MPEG-2 standards |
|
|
| Eugene Roshal |
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* 10.03.1972
1994: invented RAR format |
|
|
| John A. Robinson |
 |
birthday unknown
1994: invented BTPC algorithm |
|
|
| Ian H. Witten & Alistair Moffat & Timothy C. Bell |
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birthday unknown
1994: wrote the book "Managing Gigabytes" |
|
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| Fraunhofer IIS Researchers |
 |
birthday unknown
1995: declared .MP3 as file extension for MPEG1 Layer 3 |
|
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| Dr. William (Bill) John Teahan |
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* 06.12.1960
1995: paper on probability estimation for PPM |
|
|
| Dr. William (Bill) John Teahan |
|
* 06.12.1960
1995: invented PPM algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. John G. Cleary |
|
birthday unknown
1995: invented PPM algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. Ian H. Witten |
|
birthday unknown
1995: invented PPM algorithm |
|
|
| Jonathan Forbes |
|
born in 1973
1995: invented LZX algorithm (CAB) |
|
|
| Tomi Poutanen |
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born in 1972
1995: invented LZX algorithm (CAB) |
|
|
| Alistair Moffat |
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birthday unknown
1995: improved Arithmetic coder |
|
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| Mark Nelson |
 |
birthday unknown
1995: wrote The Data Compression Book |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Frans M. J. Willems |
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* 26.06.1954
1995: invented context tree weighting algorithm (CTW) |
|
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| Dr. Yuri M. Shtarkov |
|
* 31.01.1935
1995: invented context tree weighting algorithm (CTW) |
|
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| Prof. Dr. Tjalling J. Tjalkens |
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* 04.04.1957
1995: invented context tree weighting algorithm (CTW) |
|
|
| Dr. Marcelo J. Weinberger (HP Labs) |
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born in 1959
1996: invented LOCO-I algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. Dr. Gadiel Seroussi (HP Labs) |
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birthday unknown
1996: invented LOCO-I algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. Guillermo Sapiro (HP Labs) |
 |
birthday unknown
1996: invented LOCO-I algorithm |
|
|
| Prof. Paolo Ferragina |
 |
birthday unknown
1996: papers on dictionary matching" |
|
|
| Dr. William (Bill) John Teahan |
|
* 06.12.1960
1996: paper on entropy of english using PPM-based models" |
|
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| Prof. John G. Cleary |
|
birthday unknown
1996: paper on entropy of english using PPM-based models" |
|
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| Prof. David Pereira Coutinho |
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birthday unknown
1996: improved LZ algorithm |
|
|
| Dr. Julian Seward |
 |
birthday unknown
1996: invented BZIP2 algorithm |
|
|
| Uwe Herklotz |
|
birthday unknown
1997: melted Ari & LZ algorithm (ALZ) |
|
|
| Marcel Lemke |
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born in 1979
1997: invented ACE format |
|
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| Prof. Xiaolin Wu |
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* 12.05.1958
1997: developed CALIC algorithm |
|
|
| Dr. William (Bill) John Teahan |
|
* 06.12.1960
1998: paper on modelling of english text |
|
|
| Prof. John G. Cleary |
|
birthday unknown
1998: paper on modelling of english text |
|
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| Moving Picture Experts Group |
|
founded in 1989
1998: approved MPEG-4 standards |
|
|
| Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer |
|
birthday unknown
1998: created free exe compressor (UPX) |
|
|
| David Bryant |
|
birthday unknown
1998: created free lossless audio compressor (WAVPACK) |
|
|
| Dmitry Shkarin |
|
birthday unknown
1998: improved PPM algorithm (PPMd) |
|
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| Guido Vollbeding |
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* 03.07.1965
1998: invented JPEG-ARI (new entropy) |
|
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| Dr. Stuart J. Inglis |
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born in 1978
1998: invented Textual Image Compressor (TIC98) |
|
|
| Jørgen Ibsen |
|
birthday unknown
1998: invented aPLib algorithm (LZ77) |
|
|
| Dmitry Shkarin |
|
birthday unknown
1998: invented lossless image compressor (BMF) |
|
|
| Dmitry Shkarin |
|
birthday unknown
1999: improved PPM algorithm (PPMd) |
|
|
| Jeremy Collake |
 |
birthday unknown
1999: improved LZSS algorithm (JCALG1) |
|
|
| Charles Bloom |
 |
birthday unknown
1999: improved PPM algorithm (PPMZ) |
|
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| Dipl-Ing. Michael Schindler |
 |
birthday unknown
1999: improved BWT and invented SZIP format |
|
|
| Prof. Sergio Verdú |
 |
birthday unknown
1999: wrote book: information theory - 50 years of discovery |
|
|
| Ken Silverman (former Apogee programmer) |
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* 01.11.1975
2000: improved deflate algorithm (KZIP) |
|
|
| Prof. En-hui Yang |
 |
birthday unknown
2000: invented greedy sequential grammar transform |
|
|
| Prof. John C. Kieffer |
 |
birthday unknown
2000: invented greedy sequential grammar transform |
|
|
| Darryl Lovato [SmithMicro Corp.] |
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* 28.04.1966
2000: invented ATOM/SITX format |
|
|
| Edgar Binder |
|
birthday unknown
2000: invented Distance coding |
|
|
| Sami J. Makinen |
|
birthday unknown
2000: improved BWT algorithm (SBC Archiver) |
|
|
| Dr. William (Bill) John Teahan |
|
* 06.12.1960
2000: paper on using PPM for text categorization and segmentation |
|
|
| Vadim Engelson |
|
birthday unknown
2000: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (FSD) |
|
|
| Dag Fritzson |
|
birthday unknown
2000: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (FSD) |
|
|
| Peter Fritzson |
|
birthday unknown
2000: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (FSD) |
|
|
| Igor Pavlov |
|
birthday unknown
2001: invented LZMA algorithm |
|
|
| Dr. William (Bill) John Teahan |
|
* 06.12.1960
2001: introduced a novel switching method which can be used to combine two or more PPM models |
|
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| Prof. David J. Harper |
 |
birthday unknown
2001: introduced a novel switching method which can be used to combine two or more PPM models |
|
|
| Sebastian Deorowicz |
 |
born in 1974
2001: improved BWT algorithm (WFC) |
|
|
| Florin Ghido |
 |
birthday unknown
2001: improved lossless audio compression (OptimFrog) |
|
|
| Ichiro Matsuda |
 |
born in 1968
2001: invented Minimum Rate Predictor (MRP) |
|
|
| Dr.-Ing. habil. Tilo Strutz |
 |
birthday unknown
2001: invented lossless image compressor (CoBALP) |
|
|
| Matthew T. Ashland |
 |
* 02.11.1979
2002: improved lossless audio compression (APE) and adds support for high resolution waveforms |
|
|
| Neill Corlett |
|
birthday unknown
2002: invented Error Code Modelling (ECM) |
|
|
| Rainer Nausedat |
 |
* 21.04.1965 – † 17.11.2004
2002: invented SQX 1.x format (Squeez) |
|
|
| Dr. Peter Fenwick |
 |
birthday unknown
2002: improved BWT algorithm |
|
|
| Eugene Shelwien |
 |
birthday unknown
2003: created impressive CM compressor (ASH) |
|
|
| Dr. Jürgen Abel |
 |
* 30.09.1964
2003: improved Arithmetic coding (PAQ) |
|
|
| Matthew V. Mahoney |
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born in 1955
2003: started writing his Arithmetic coder (PAQ) |
|
|
| Thomas A. Phelps |
|
birthday unknown
2003: invented near-lossless PDF recompressor (Multivalent) |
|
|
| Serge Osnach |
|
birthday unknown
2003: improved PAQ1 by adding SSE stage between predictor and encoder |
|
|
| Serge Osnach |
|
birthday unknown
2003: wrote Sparse model for PAQ (PAQ3N) |
|
|
| Matthew V. Mahoney |
|
born in 1955
2003: improved PAQ: models are mixed now using adaptive rather than fixed weights (PAQ4) |
|
|
| Matthew V. Mahoney |
|
born in 1955
2003: improved PAQ by adding word models for text, audio and image model (PAQ5) |
|
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| Dmitry Shkarin |
|
birthday unknown
2003: improved his PPMd algorithm (DURILCA) |
|
|
| Frank Schwellinger |
|
birthday unknown
2004: improved DMC algorithm (Ocamyd) |
|
|
| Prof. Ziya Arnavut |
 |
* 31.01.1960
2004: invented Inversion Coder for BWT (BWIC) |
|
|
| Alexander Ratushnyak |
 |
birthday unknown
2004: wrote an x86 model for PAQ (PAQAR) |
|
|
| Berto Destasio |
 |
birthday unknown
2004: improved PAQ6 by tuning models and adjusting the bit count discounting schedule (EmilCont) |
|
|
| David A. Scott |
 |
* 27.06.1946
2004: improved PAQ algorithm by improving arithmetic coder (PAQ6) |
|
|
| Fabio Buffoni |
|
birthday unknown
2004: improved PAQ algorithm by making it faster (PAQ6) |
|
|
| Malcolm Taylor |
|
birthday unknown
2004: invented Bitstream coding (WinRK) |
|
|
| Malcolm Taylor |
|
birthday unknown
2004: improved PAQ (PWCM)(WinRK) |
|
|
| Rainer Nausedat |
|
* 21.04.1965 – † 17.11.2004
2004: invented SQX 2.0 format (Squeez) |
|
|
| Sven Ritter |
|
birthday unknown
2004: co-invented SQX 2.0 format (Squeez) |
|
|
| Malcolm Taylor |
|
birthday unknown
2004: invented PWCM image compression |
|
|
| Serge Voskoboynikov |
 |
* 13.06.1977
2004: improved PPM & EOL coder (SLIM) |
|
|
| Shinji Wakasugi |
 |
birthday unknown
2005: invented Switched Linear Prediction (SLP) |
|
|
| Alexander Djourik |
|
birthday unknown
2005: improved his True Audio Lossless Compressor (TTA) to support high resolution waveforms |
|
|
| Yaakov Gringeler |
 |
birthday unknown
2005: invented lossless JPEG recompression (Stuffit 9) |
|
|
| Yaakov Gringeler |
|
birthday unknown
2005: invented lossless bitmap compressor going to be used in Stuffit Image Format (SIF) |
|
|
| Matthew V. Mahoney |
|
born in 1955
2005: improved PAQ speed (PAQ7) |
|
|
| Matthew V. Mahoney |
|
born in 1955
2005: invented DCT decoder (PAQ7) |
|
|
| Matthew V. Mahoney |
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born in 1955
2005: rewrote PAQ, now it uses neural network to combine models rather than a gradient descent mixer, it is 3x faster (PAQ7) |
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| Dipl.-Ing. Tilman Liebchen |
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* 06.01.1971
2005: developed MPEG-4 ALS |
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| Przemyslaw Skibinski |
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* 15.09.1978
2005: invented WRT (Word Replacing Transform) |
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| Alexey Oraevsky (Sound Genetics, Inc.) |
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birthday unknown
2005: CTO & founder of lossless MP3 recompressor (SoundSlimmer) |
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| Dr. Dmitry S. Vatolin (Sound Genetics, Inc.) |
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birthday unknown
2005: advisory board for lossless MP3 recompressor (SoundSlimmer) |
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| David Kharabadze (Sound Genetics, Inc.) |
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birthday unknown
2005: Chief Algorithmist for lossless MP3 recompressor (SoundSlimmer) |
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| Eugene Shelwien (Sound Genetics, Inc.) |
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birthday unknown
2005: Mathematician for lossless MP3 recompressor (SoundSlimmer) |
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| Alexander Zhirkov (Sound Genetics, Inc.) |
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birthday unknown
2005: SGT ideologist for lossless MP3 recompressor (SoundSlimmer) |
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| Matthew V. Mahoney |
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born in 1955
2006: improved PAQ7: better context map & state table and new x86 model (PAQ8) |
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| Serge Osnach |
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birthday unknown
2006: wrote a distance model for PAQ8 (PAQ8jbb) and improved sparse model (PAQ8ja) |
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| Bill Pettis |
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* 30.03.1986
2006: improved PAQ8F text models (PAQ8J) |
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| Ilia Muraviev |
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* 31.07.1984
2006: melted & improved LZ+Ari (LZPXJ, TC) |
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| Thomas Becker |
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birthday unknown
2006: improved lossless audio compressor (linear prediction Shorten) in both performance & speed (TAK) |
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| Malyshev Dmitry Alexandrovich |
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* 25.02.1986
2006: improved BWT+DC algorithm (DARK) |
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| Lasse Reinhold |
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birthday unknown
2006: created the world's fastest LZ compressor (QuickLZ) |
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| Josh Coalson |
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birthday unknown
2006: improved his lossless waveform compressor (FLAC) to add support for high resolution audio |
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| Christian Schneider |
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* 26.03.1984
2006: invented lossless ZLIB preprocessor |
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| Pavel L. Holoborodko |
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* 07.02.1979
2006: wrote a PGM model for PAQ8i |
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| Dr. Martin Burtscher |
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birthday unknown
2006: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (DFCM) |
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| Paruj Ratanaworabhan |
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birthday unknown
2006: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (DFCM) |
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| Dr. Peter G. Lindstrom |
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birthday unknown
2006: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (PLMI) |
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| Dr. Martin Isenburg |
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birthday unknown
2006: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (PLMI) |
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| Christian Martelock |
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birthday unknown
2007: heavily improved CM algorithm in both speed and performance (CCM) |
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| Nania Francesco Antonio |
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* 18.07.1972
2007: heavily improved DMC algorithm in both speed and performance (HOOK) |
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| Nania Francesco Antonio |
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* 18.07.1972
2007: invented Advanced DMC algorithm |
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| Matthias Stirner |
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* 28.07.1981
2007: created first file-2-file JPEG recompressor (open-source soon) |
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| Vladimir Semenyuk |
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birthday unknown
2007: improved Stuffit Image Format (SIF) in both speed and performance (used in Stuffit 12) |
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| ? |
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birthday unknown
2007: invented fast lossless MP3 recompressor used in Stuffit 12 |
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| Jan Ondrus |
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* 10.05.1985
2007: heavily improved PAQ8 JPEG model (PAQ8Fthis1..4) |
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| Andreas Morphis |
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birthday unknown
2007: heavily improved PAQ8 Bitmap model (PAQ8oSSE) |
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| Kaido Orav |
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birthday unknown
2007: extended PAQ8 Bitmap filter to support 8-Bit files |
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| Lasse Reinhold |
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birthday unknown
2007: improved his world's fastest LZ compressor (QuickLZ) |
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| Piotr Tarsa |
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* 15.05.1988
2007: created one of the fastest LZP+PPM compressors (TarsaLZP) |
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| Oscar Garcia |
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birthday unknown
2007: created one of the fastest LZ77 compressors (Thor) |
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| Nania Francesco Antonio |
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* 18.07.1972
2007: invented LZC algorithm (LZC) |
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| Nania Francesco Antonio |
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* 18.07.1972
2007: invented Fast Content Mixing algorithm (Rings) |
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| Dr. Martin Burtscher |
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birthday unknown
2007: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (FPC) |
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| Paruj Ratanaworabhan |
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birthday unknown
2007: invented lossless compressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data (FPC) |
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| Matthias Stirner |
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* 28.07.1981
2007: created a lossless .PPM and .PGM compressor (PackPNM 0.8) |
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| Matthew V. Mahoney |
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born in 1955
2007: created and improved a fast PAQ8 compressor (LPAQ) |
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| Alexander Ratushnyak |
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birthday unknown
2007: created and improved a fast PAQ8 compressor (LPAQ) and a text preprocessor (DRT) |
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| Bulat Ziganshin |
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birthday unknown
2007: created free open-source archiver for Win and Linux (FreeARC) |
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| Piotr Tarsa |
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* 15.05.1988
2007: improved symbol ranking algorithm (SR2 v2) |
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| Ilia Muraviev |
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* 31.07.1984
2007: invented and improved LZ77+PPM algorithm (LZPM) |
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| Christopher Mattern |
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* 15.03.1986
2008: created fast content mixer (CMM1..CMM4) |
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| Christian Schneider |
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* 26.03.1984
2008: enhanced .GIF & .PNG support in his lossless ZLIB preprocessor (Precomp) |
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| Christian Martelock |
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birthday unknown
2008: created a fast and high performing ROLZ compressor (RZM) |
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| Dr. Peter G. Lindstrom |
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birthday unknown
2008:invented lossless precompressor for hexahedral meshes |
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| Dr. Martin Isenburg |
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birthday unknown
2008:invented lossless precompressor for hexahedral meshes |
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| Ilia Muraviev |
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* 31.07.1984
2008: improved LZ77 algorithm (BALZ) |
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| Ilia Muraviev |
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* 31.07.1984
2008: invented new algorithm combination BWT+FCM (BCM) |
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| Nania Francesco Antonio |
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* 18.07.1972
2008: created fast ROLZ algorithm (FlashZip) |
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| Christian Martelock |
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birthday unknown
2008: created new fast RHSO-LZ algorithm (Slug 1.27) |
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| Christian Martelock |
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birthday unknown
2008: created a fast and high performing BWT+FCM compressor (Blizzard) |
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| Osman Turan |
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* 26.05.1985
2008: created new algorithm combination LWCX (BIT 0.2) |
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| Igor Pavlov |
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birthday unknown
2008: speed up his LZMA algorithm (7-Zip 4.64) |
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| Christian Schneider |
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* 26.03.1984
2008: enhanced .JPEG support in Precomp with Matthias Stirner's PackJPG allows lossless recompression of Motion-JPEG videos |
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| Matthias Stirner |
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* 28.07.1981
2008: improved his lossless JPEG recompressor PackJPG and enables Precomp to also do lossless recompression of Motion-JPEG videos(PackPNM 0.8) |
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| Sami Runsas |
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birthday unknown
2008: invented fast and high performing LZT algorithm (NanoZip) |
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| Sami Runsas |
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birthday unknown
2008: created fast and high performing CM algorithm (NanoZip) |
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| Sami Runsas |
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birthday unknown
2008: heavily improved BWT algorithm (NanoZip) |
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| Malcolm Taylor |
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birthday unknown
2008: improved his WinRK by adding a native 64 bit version and better lossless audio codec |
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| Kaido Orav |
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birthday unknown
2008: extended PAQ8 by improving text detection and adding UTF8 detection (PAQ8o10t) |
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| Andreas Morphis |
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birthday unknown
2008: added faster and far better WAV model & WAV detection (PAQ8p) |
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| Eugene Shelwien |
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birthday unknown
2008: improved PPMd var J |
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| Giorgio Tani |
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* 22.11.1974
2008: created free open-source Archiver (PeaZip) |
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| Eugene Shelwien |
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birthday unknown
2008: for his impressive site http://ctxmodel.net |
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| Nania Francesco Antonio |
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* 18.07.1972
2008: created fast and high performing LZARI algorithm (BZP) |
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| Alexey Dubrovsky |
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birthday unknown
2008: created an impressive 7z archive optimizer (Ultra7z) |
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| Jan Ondrus |
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* 10.05.1985
2009: added MOD & S3M & AIFF detection (PAQ8PX) |
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| Jan Ondrus |
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* 10.05.1985
2009: improved JPEG detection and compression (PAQ8PX) |
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| Jan Ondrus |
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* 10.05.1985
2009: improved EXE detection and compression (PAQ8PX) |
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| Jan Ondrus |
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* 10.05.1985
2009: added ECM preprocessing to PAQ8 (PAQ8PX) |
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2009: - your invention / improvement |
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