Library of technical articles along with code samples written and supported by Andrew Polar. Contains articles and source codes on Huffman and range coder. Readers may found another topics of interest not related to data compression, e.g. a simple Web server in sources.
Created: 11/02/2007
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
Boris Ryabko is a well-known Russian scientist with main scientific interests in Information Theory, Prediction, Complexity of Algorithms,
Cryptography and Mathematical Biology. Probably, he is most known as an inventor of "bookstack" or "move-to-front" coding. There is a number of selected publications and reports regarding Information Theory and compression issues on his homepage. The primary language is English, some papers have Russian version.
Created: 14/10/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
Tilman Liebchen from Technical University of Berlin did a lot of research in the field of lossless audio compression. He is the author of LPAC codec and he was actively involved in the development of MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) standard. There are a number of useful papers on his page, including articles on MPEG-4 ALS. Some papers are in German.
Created: 11/02/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
DjVu page of Yann LeCun, professor of The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, founder and maintainer of sites DjVuZone, DjVuLibre and etc
Created: 24/09/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Personal page of David Pereira Coutinho, Professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. This page contains links to several compression-related abstracts and papers, as well as links to the Data Compression Framework developed with his students. (Indexed here as The DCG Framework.) The majority of the page is available in English and Portuguese.
Created: 26/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Bernhard have written quite a few papers on data compression. A few of them are in German, a few in English. All in ps.gz format. Bernhard has links to published papers and preprints on this page, be sure to check them all.
Created: 02/04/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Alistair Moffat's home page. Alistair is one of a cluster of antipodal data compression mavens, currently working in Melbourne, Australia. This page has a link to some copies of abstracts and papers.
Created: 22/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
James Storer chairs the annual DCC event, and keeps busy in many other areas. Back in the bygone era his book on Data Compression had a lock on the market. See what he's been up to lately here.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Tim Bell is one of the many compression mavens in Australia and New Zealand. This page contains links to many of his ongoing projects.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Dr. Peter Fenwick's home page. Fenwick has links to several of his compression papers on this page, including several recent papers discussing BWT algorithms.
Created: 01/01/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
David A. Huffman, the founding faculty member of the Computer Science Department and a pioneer in the field, died at a local hospital on Thursday, October 7, after a 10-month battle with cancer. He was 74.
Created: 16/10/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Mark Adler has given much to us via his work on Info-ZIP, zlib, and PNG. Is he an interesting person as well? Here is the place to find out.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Professor David A. Huffman (August 9, 1925 - October 7, 1999) - author of "Huffman Codes".
One of the faculty pages at UC Santa Cruz, the late David A. Huffman.
See also David_A._Huffman Wikipedia article for more information.
Created: 19/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Gordon is the author of DMC and many publications related to data compression. This is is home page, which has links to much of his work.
Created: 08/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Patrick Craig has an interesting tale to tell. Without being a data compression expert, he managed to beat the $5000 compression challenge. You won't see him taking an ocean cruise with his winnings, though. DCL reader commented: The challenge was obviously met.
Created: 25/04/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Jesper Larsson spent a fair amount of his years in academia
studying Suffix Trees. His home page has links to his thesis and a few other papers on suffix trees and other string matching/Data Compression topics.
Created: 23/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Dmitry Shkarin is the author of the PPMd compressor. His homepage has links to to versions A-J of the compressor as of Februry, 2006. This page is in Russian, but I find that running it through
BabelFish produces a usuable translation.
Created: 14/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Tjalling is on the faculty of Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, which appears to be located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He is involved in research of various aspects of Information Theory, including Context Tree Weighting and Coding.
Created: 01/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
David Taubman is on the faculty of the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Taubman is the author of the book JPEG2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice and has been very influential in the current development of the standard. He is also the author of Kakadu, a commercial library that is advertised as a complete implementation of Part 1 of the standard.
Created: 30/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Context Tree Weighting (CTW) has been a technique with great promise, but it hasn't ever been able to reach the critical mass needed to become more than a curiousity. Jurgen Abel is doing his best to overcome that problem. He's created a nice reference page for CTW on his data-compression.info web site. He has references to a few papers, a few people, and one piece of source code.
Created: 21/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Jurgen Abel has done an enormous amount of research on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, and has published the results on his web site. On this page you will find:
A summary of this compression technique.
Links to over 70 online papers.
Links to at least that many people involved in BWT research or development.
Extensive links to BWT source code.
This web page may now be the definitive source of information for this field.
Created: 18/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Jurgen is the proprietor of
www.data-compression.info,
an excellent resource for developers and researchers. Jurgen has a good supply of links to papers, conferences, books, etc. on the site, as well as executables and source for ABC, a freeware BWT compressor he wote in Delphi.
Created: 10/12/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
A couple of high school kids from Saratoga, CA, were regional winners in the Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology competition.
Created: 12/10/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Daniel Lemire is a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada. Some of his recent research interest is on wavelet-based prefix sum methods for On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP). Some of his publications are relevant to compression techniques including a white paper on image compression by wavelets.
Created: 05/06/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This isn't a new story, but the Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville gives a lot of detail in this treatment. A fellow named Madison Priest seems to have pulled in millions with his promises of hardware that can push high quality movies over conventional phone lines. Lots of interesting details, including the famous coax line hidden in the power cord! The second part of this story can be found
here.
Created: 09/05/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
The wavelet group has links to books, publications, and people doing wavelet things. Link updated to new location January 2002
Created: 25/01/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
An article in the New York Times that gives a thumbnail description of Claude Shannon. You will need to register with the Times in order to read the article.
Created: 30/12/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
This issue of the DDJ newsletter talks about bijective coding, a coding technique that is fearlessly promoted by David Scott, a regular presence in comp.compression.
Created: 11/08/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
This issue of the Data Compression Newsletter from Dr. Dobb's Journal says farewell to Phil Katz, creator of PKZip.
Created: 05/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
This is Jeff Gilchrist's home page. Jeff is the curator of the Archive Compression Test, which presumably keeps him busy.
Created: 25/06/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Robert X. Cringely waxes on a bit about the death of Claude Shannon. Bob definitely gives the Father his props.
Created: 04/03/2001
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Paolo Ferragina's research in data structures and string matching naturally lends itself to Data Compression and to the problem of indexing compressed data. See the link to his recent papers on indexing BWT compressed files. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa.
Created: 09/11/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Giovanni Manzini has published papers covering a few different topics in Data Compression, including several recent works on Burrows-Wheeler algorithms. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale in the the most northern reaches of Italy.
Created: 25/09/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
This bibliography is the best attempt at a complete record of all the written works of Claude Shannon, father of Information Theory.
Created: 23/09/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
A bronze statue of Claude Shannon will be unveiled on Friday, October 6, 2000 in his hometown, Gaylord, Michigan. This sculpture by Eugene Daub was commissioned by the Information Theory Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It will be installed in the recently named Shannon Park in downtown Gaylord.
Created: 15/09/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
One of the many academics interested in data compression at University of Waikato in New Zealand. Cleary has been involved in many important developments in the field.
Created: 15/07/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Radford Neal is a professor at the University of Toronto. One of his research interests is data compression, and his name appears on a couple of seminal papers on arithmetic coding. Links to papers can be found here.
Created: 31/05/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Home Page for Steve Tate, University of North Texas. State Tate is an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas, and has links to a few data compression papers on his site.
Created: 27/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Ioannis Kontoyiannis is an Assistant Professor at Purdue. He has many of his papers available on line, in PS or PDF format, often both. Sample title: Pointwise redundancy in lossy data compression and universal lossy data compression..
Created: 27/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Home Page for Uzi Vishkin, of University of Maryland. Areas of research of interest in data compression include suffix trees and string matching.
Created: 09/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
I don't know the native language being used here, although it appears to be using perhaps a Cyrillic alphabet.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
A short bio of the famous Russian mathematician. His name lives on in comp.compression and elsewhere due to his seminal work in the study of complexity.
Created: 05/11/1999
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Ross Williams did some seminal work in the area of dictionary based encoders in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His LZRW algorithms were not only innovative and interesting, but they managed to place Ross right in the middle of some early software patent issues.
Created: 21/09/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
ADAM CLARK could be sitting on an invention with the potential to turn the computer world on its head, not to mention the worlds of telecommunications and broadcasting. The 22-year-old Knoxfield developer claims to have cracked a conundrum that has stumped researchers for years - how to deliver broadcast quality sound and video down plain old telephone line. Note: there is a $1AUS charge for viewing this article. :-(
Created: 21/09/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
email address for Tom Lane, organizer of the Independent JPEG group, omniscient poster to comp.compression on JPEG issues.
Created: 17/02/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Ian H. Witten's Home Page. I'm Professor of Computer Science here in sunny New Zealand -- Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Waikato, New Zealand
Created: 15/02/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
On the network, Mark has contributed free software as a coauthor of Info-ZIP's zip and unzip, GNU's gzip, the zlib compression library, and as a participant in the PNG image format development effort.
Created: 01/01/1970
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