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Yaakov Ziv

1931 - 2023

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Jacob Ziv (Hebrew: יעקב זיו; 27 November 1931 – 25 March 2023) was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai bound in estimation theory, with Moshe Zakai. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yaakov Ziv is the 163rd most popular engineer (up from 298th in 2019), the 201st most popular biography from Israel (up from 292nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yaakov Ziv ranks 163 out of 389. Before him are Anton Flettner, John Bagot Glubb, Alec Issigonis, Ivan Yarkovsky, Pierre Berthier, and Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. After him are Essam Sharaf, Aurel Vlaicu, John Hughes, Hugo Eckener, Antoine de Chézy, and Peter Hirsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Yaakov Ziv ranks 207. Before him are Ladislav Novák, Françoise Arnoul, Neil Postman, Bobby Collins, David Janssen, and Ola Ullsten. After him are Ita Ever, Tommy Lapid, Dritëro Agolli, Takashi Ono, Tom Wesselmann, and Manolo Escobar. Among people deceased in 2023, Yaakov Ziv ranks 187. Before him are Yuri Temirkanov, Shane MacGowan, Boniface Alexandre, Jim Hines, Bo Larsson, and Juraj Jakubisko. After him are Ita Ever, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, Ingrid Haebler, Antoni Martí, Solomon Perel, and Ahmad Jamal.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yaakov Ziv ranks 201 out of 466. Before him are Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (1907), Dani Karavan (1930), Meir Amit (1921), Yitzhak Hofi (1927), Amos Gitai (1950), and Ilan Pappé (1954). After him are Justus of Tiberias (35), Hasan Salama (1912), Ahron Daum (1951), May Ziade (1886), Alfonso of Brienne (1227), and Adi Shamir (1952).

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Among ENGINEERS In Israel

Among engineers born in Israel, Yaakov Ziv ranks 2. Before him are Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947).

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