Ziv (an information theorist) worked together in the late 1970s to develop compression algorithms that are now widely referred to as Lempel-Ziv algorithms.
What does LZ stand for?
LZ stands for Lempel-Ziv (dictionary-based lossless data compression)
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Most compression technologies are based on the Lempel-Ziv algorithms developed in the late 1970s.
Lempel-Ziv and Welch developed an alternative method (LZW) of encoding data in 1985 that also uses pattern recognition but allows the decoder to build the codebook as it processes the data stream.