RIP .zip

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. pic.twitter.com/SPK3KB1G1N

— Yaniv Erlich (@erlichya) March 26, 2023