Jacob Ziv
Israeli engineer
Jacob Ziv was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. Wikipedia
Born: November 27, 1931, Tiberias, Israel
Died: March 25, 2023 (age 91 years), Israel
Awards: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Marconi Prize, Claude E. Shannon Award, and more
Education: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (1957) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Siblings: Yehuda Ziv