One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information.

We examine five techniques for data compression in this chapter. The first three are simple encoding techniques, called: run-length, Huffman, and delta encoding. The last two are elaborate procedures ...

People store large quantities of data in their electronic devices and transfer some of this data to others, whether for professional or personal reasons. Data compression methods are thus of the ...

Even if you use a “real” compression algorithm, they will almost always perform better if the data to compress has more repeating sequences.

This encoding is sent to the bit allocation algorithm, which uses this information in conjunction with a psychoacoustic model to generate the number of bits to be used to quantize the mantissa of the ...

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain Creator of a breakthrough compression algorithm fights to keep it patent-free.

Microsoft is open-sourcing and releasing to the Open Compute Project its 'Project Zipline' data-compression algorithm, plus related hardware specs and source code.