Terry Welch
American computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terry Archer Welch was an American computer scientist. Along with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, he developed the lossless Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) compression algorithm, which was published in 1984.[1][2]
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Terry Welch | |
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Born | Terry Archer Welch (1939-01-20)January 20, 1939 |
Died | November 22, 1988(1988-11-22) (aged 49) |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) compression |
Spouse | Raylene Welch |
Children | Kindra Welch Curry, Kerri Welch, Travis Welch |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Bounds on Information Retrieval Efficiency in Static File Structures (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Elias |
Doctoral students | Nick Tredennick |
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