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Born in ], British mandate ], on 27 November 1931, Ziv received his ], Dip. Eng. (1954) and ] degrees (1957) in ] from the ], and his ] degree from the ] in 1962.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-27 |title=Dist. Prof. Jacob Ziv 1931-2023 |url=https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2023/03/the-technion-mourns-the-passing-of-distinguished-professor-jacob-ziv/ |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1970, Ziv joined the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and was the Herman Gross Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Technion Distinguished Professor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jacob Ziv |url=https://minghsiehece.usc.edu/jacob-ziv/ |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=USC Viterbi {{!}} Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
Ziv was dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 1974 to 1976 and vice president for Academic Affairs from 1978 to 1982.<ref name=":0" /> From 1987, Ziv had spent three sabbatical leaves at the Information Research Department of ] in ], USA.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Ziv Receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award {{!}} IEEE Information Theory Society |url=https://www.itsoc.org/news-events/recent-news/ziv-receives-frontiers-of-knowledge-award |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=www.itsoc.org}}</ref> | Ziv was dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 1974 to 1976 and vice president for Academic Affairs from 1978 to 1982.<ref name=":0" /> From 1987, Ziv had spent three sabbatical leaves at the Information Research Department of ] in ], USA.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Ziv Receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award {{!}} IEEE Information Theory Society |url=https://www.itsoc.org/news-events/recent-news/ziv-receives-frontiers-of-knowledge-award |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=www.itsoc.org}}</ref> | ||
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From 1955 to 1959, he served as a senior research engineer for the Scientific Department Israel Ministry of Defense, focused on research and development of communication systems.<ref name=":0" /> From 1961 to 1962, while studying for his doctorate at M.I.T., he joined the Applied Science Division of ] in ], where he was a senior research engineer performing research in communication theory.<ref name=":0" /> In 1962 he returned to the Scientific Department, Israel Ministry of Defense, as head of the Communications Division and was also an adjunct of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion ] Israel Institute of Technology.<ref name=":0" /> From 1968 to 1970 he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories, Inc., and was the chairman of the Israeli Universities Planning and Grants Committee from 1985 to 1991.<ref name=":1" /> He was a member of the ] from 1981 to his death, and he served as its president between 1995 and 2004.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
Ziv died on 25 March 2023, at age 91, less than two months after Lempel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Israel Academy mourns the passing of its past President Prof. Jacob Ziv |url=https://www.academy.ac.il/News/NewsItem.aspx?nodeId=837&id=2518 |access-date=26 March 2023 |website=www.academy.ac.il |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Technology |first=TechnionIsrael Institute of |title=The Technion Mourns the Passing of Distinguished Professor Jacob Ziv |url=https://cacm.acm.org/news/271507-the-technion-mourns-the-passing-of-distinguished-professor-jacob-ziv/fulltext |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=cacm.acm.org |language=en}}</ref> | Ziv died on 25 March 2023, at age 91, less than two months after Lempel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Israel Academy mourns the passing of its past President Prof. Jacob Ziv |url=https://www.academy.ac.il/News/NewsItem.aspx?nodeId=837&id=2518 |access-date=26 March 2023 |website=www.academy.ac.il |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Technology |first=TechnionIsrael Institute of |title=The Technion Mourns the Passing of Distinguished Professor Jacob Ziv |url=https://cacm.acm.org/news/271507-the-technion-mourns-the-passing-of-distinguished-professor-jacob-ziv/fulltext |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=cacm.acm.org |language=en}}</ref> |
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Jacob Ziv | |
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Born | (1931-11-27)27 November 1931 Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine |
Died | 25 March 2023(2023-03-25) (aged 91) |
Education | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (B.Sc., M.Sc.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (D.Sc.) |
Known for | LZ77, LZ78 |
Awards | Israel Prize (1993) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1995) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information theory |
Institutions | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Ministry of Defense Bell Laboratories |
Jacob Ziv (Template:Lang-he; 27 November 1931 – 25 March 2023) was an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.
Biography
Born in Tiberias, British mandate Palestine, on 27 November 1931, Ziv received his B.Sc., Dip. Eng. (1954) and M.Sc. degrees (1957) in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his D.Sc. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. In 1970, Ziv joined the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and was the Herman Gross Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Technion Distinguished Professor.
Ziv was dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 1974 to 1976 and vice president for Academic Affairs from 1978 to 1982. From 1987, Ziv had spent three sabbatical leaves at the Information Research Department of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA.
From 1955 to 1959, he served as a senior research engineer for the Scientific Department Israel Ministry of Defense, focused on research and development of communication systems. From 1961 to 1962, while studying for his doctorate at M.I.T., he joined the Applied Science Division of Melpar, Inc. in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was a senior research engineer performing research in communication theory. In 1962 he returned to the Scientific Department, Israel Ministry of Defense, as head of the Communications Division and was also an adjunct of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. From 1968 to 1970 he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories, Inc., and was the chairman of the Israeli Universities Planning and Grants Committee from 1985 to 1991. He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1981 to his death, and he served as its president between 1995 and 2004.
Ziv died on 25 March 2023, at age 91, less than two months after Lempel.
Awards
In 1993, Ziv was awarded the Israel Prize, for exact sciences. Ziv received in 1995 the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, for "contributions to information theory, and the theory and practice of data compression", and in 1998 a Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society.
Ziv is the recipient of the 1997 Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society and the 2008 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Information and Communication Technologies. In 2021, Ziv has been awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor, the highest recognition from IEEE, "for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership".
Ziv was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.
See also
Lectures
- 1992 - Information measures of individual sequences with application to universal data compression and hypothesis testing Lecture sponsored by the Dept. of Electrical and Computer engineering, University of California, San Diego. Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series. Digital Object Made Available by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
References
- "Dist. Prof. Jacob Ziv 1931-2023". Technion - Israel Institute of Technology -. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Jacob Ziv". USC Viterbi | Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ "Ziv Receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award | IEEE Information Theory Society". www.itsoc.org. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- "The Israel Academy mourns the passing of its past President Prof. Jacob Ziv". www.academy.ac.il. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- Technology, TechnionIsrael Institute of. "The Technion Mourns the Passing of Distinguished Professor Jacob Ziv". cacm.acm.org. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1993" (in Hebrew). 15 August 2012. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- "Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation". IEEE Information Theory Society. 1998. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- "Claude E. Shannon Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. 1997. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- "Information and communication technologies 2008: Jacob Ziv". BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- "IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- "Jacob Ziv". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
External links
- A Conversation with Jacob Ziv (on his 65th birthday)
- ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award 1977: Jacob Ziv
- Jacob Ziv at DBLP Bibliography Server
Winners of the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award | |
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IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal | |
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IEEE Medal of Honor | |
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2001–2025 |
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- 1931 births
- 2023 deaths
- Israeli Jews
- Israeli computer scientists
- Israeli information theorists
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Israel Prize in exact science recipients
- Israel Prize in exact science recipients who were computer scientists
- Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Jewish scientists
- People from Tiberias
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
- Presidents of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Jews in Mandatory Palestine
- Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- IEEE Medal of Honor recipients
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- Israel Defense Prize recipients
- Scientists at Bell Labs