Was behind the development of compression algorithms that brought zip, mp3, pdf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lempel
..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…
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…
