How a dispute over royalties gave birth to the PNG file format

In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented ...
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Twenty-year-old vulnerability in LZO finally patched

After twenty years, a vulnerability in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient compression algorithm, has finally been patched. The flaw, a subtle integer overflow, existed for as long as ...
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Lempel-Ziv Complexity: A Practical Introduction

Discover how this powerful algorithm measures randomness and compresses data—perfect for tech enthusiasts and curious minds alike! Mullin fires back at Newsom over National Guard in Los Angeles: ...
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Prof. Abraham Lempel, Inventor of PDF & MP3 Compressions, Dead at 87

Prof. Abraham Lempel, an Israeli computer scientist considered one of the fathers of data compression and the man who changed the field of computer science, died on Sunday at age 87. Lampel made ...