The paper A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression was published in May of 1977 — it introduced the LZ77 algorithm, which became the foundation for a family of derivative compression algorithms underpinning widely used formats like ZIP, gzip, and PNG
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The paper A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression was published in May of 1977 — it introduced the LZ77 algorithm, which became the foundation for a family of derivative compression algorithms underpinning widely used formats like ZIP, gzip, and PNG https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1055714 https://courses.cs.duke.edu/spring03/cps296.5/papers/ziv_lempel_1977_universal_algorithm.pdf
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