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jan 1, 1977 - Lempel–Ziv Compression

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Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv developed the LZ77/LZ78 compression algorithms. Their work became foundational to modern digital compression and influenced formats and technologies such as GIF, TIFF, ZIP and other compressed data systems. This is probably one of the most consequential Israeli contributions to everyday computing.

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jan 1, 1977
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~ 49 years ago

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