cryptographer engineer computer scientist
Welch received a Bachelor of Surgery, Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin and worked in computer design at Honeywell in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Terry Archer Welch was an American computer scientist He taught at the University of Texas in Austin until joining the Sperry Research Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1976 where the paper about the LZW algorithm was published. In 1983 he joined DEC where he worked as DEC liaison to Master Control Console"s advanced computer architecture program
He died of a brain tumor in 1988.
