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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yaakov Ziv has received more than 23,235 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Yaakov Ziv is the 301st most popular engineer (down from 271st in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from Israel (down from 259th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yaakov Ziv ranks 301 out of 323. Before him are Louis Armand, Hugh Latimer Dryden, Christopher Cockerell, Robert H. Dennard, John R. Pierce, and Franciszek Rychnowski. After him are Aldo Costa, Mario Theissen, Yahya Ayyash, Joseph Bazalgette, Ove Arup, and Willy Ley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Yaakov Ziv ranks 414. Before him are Jimmy Stewart, Thorvald Strömberg, Sven Delblanc, Jackie McLean, Giovanni Battista Rabino, and Leyla Erbil. After him are Pierre Chambon, E. C. George Sudarshan, Mirja Hietamies, Sergio Obeso Rivera, Eva Bosáková, and Te Atairangikaahu. Among people deceased in 2023, Yaakov Ziv ranks 312. Before him are C. R. Rao, Bill Richardson, Michael Bishop, B. V. Doshi, Anita Thallaug, and Danilo Astori. After him are Ernesto Castano, Francis Lee, Trevor Francis, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Jerónimo Saavedra, and Friedel Lutz.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yaakov Ziv ranks 276 out of 430. Before him are Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (1944), Nahum Stelmach (1936), Shlomo Artzi (1949), Avishai Cohen (1970), Aviv Kochavi (1964), and Netta Barzilai (1993). After him are Rina Mor (1956), Ronit Elkabetz (1964), Giora Spiegel (1947), Moshe Castel (1909), Gilad Shalit (1986), and Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936).

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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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