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@kennyog wrote:

Oh! I didn’t know Abraham Lempel had died. I met him a few times when we both worked for HP Labs. He was an imposing figure with a direct management style.

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@erlichya ("Yaniv Erlich") wrote:

Ziv and Lempel co-invented the famous Lempel-Ziv algorithm that is the basis of ZIP files.

Prof. Abraham Lempel died 7 weeks ago.
Prof. Jacob Ziv died today 😔
RIP.

We are losing the giants that shaped computing as we know it.