He also tried to build a Marconi transmitter from metal player-piano parts. While practicing violin, for example, he came up with a scheme to turn his music stand into a lamp. Electricity and gadgets-and little else-fascinated him as a child. Ziv was born in 1931 to Russian immigrants in Tiberias, a city then in British-ruled Palestine and now part of Israel. It is his full body of work, spanning more than half a century, that earned him theĢ021 IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership." Ziv went on to partner with other researchers on other innovations in compression. Without these algorithms, we'd likely be mailing large data files on discs instead of sending them across the Internet with a click, buying our music on CDs instead of streaming it, and looking at Facebook feeds that don't have bouncing animated images.
That algorithm became the basis for the Unix compress program used in the early '80s WinZip and Gzip, born in the early '90s and the GIF and TIFF image formats. The following year, the two researchers issued a refinement, LZ78. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society Major awards: IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership" BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Claude E. National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, IEEE Fellow Organizational memberships: Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, U.S. How he starts the day: A cup of espresso and a piece of dark chocolate Birthplace: Tiberias, British-ruled Palestine (now Israel)įamily: Married to Shoshana, four children, nine grandchildrenĮducation: BSc, Dip-Eng, MSc, all in electrical engineering from Technion, in 1954, 1955, 1957 Sc.D, MIT, 1962įavorite books: Detective stories, particularly those featuring Perry Masonįavorite kind of music: classical, particularly Bach jazz
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