Abraham Lempel

Name: Abraham Lempel

Born: February 10, 1936, in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine)

Computer-related contributions

• An Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

Honors and awards

• Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation (1998).
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007).