Background
Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine).
university professor computer scientist
Lempel was born on 10 February 1936 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine).
He studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received a Bachelor of Science In 1965, and Doctor of Science in 1967.
In 1963, Master of Science Since 1977 he has held the title of full professor Lempel is now a professor emeritus in Technion. His historically important works start with the presentation of the LZ77 algorithm in a paper entitled "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression" in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Information Theory (May 1977), co-authored by Jacob Ziv.
Lempel founded Himachal Pradesh Labs—Israel in 1994, and served as its director until October 2007.