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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 24,805 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Yaakov Ziv is the 298th most popular engineer (up from 299th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Israel (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yaakov Ziv ranks 298 out of 389. Before him are Pat Symonds, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, K. Eric Drexler, Hesham Qandil, and Peter Schreyer. After him are Mal Evans, Franciszek Rychnowski, Frederick Terman, Percy Hobart, Arthur E. Kennelly, and Sam Eyde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Yaakov Ziv ranks 407. Before him are Sonny Clark, Norberto Boggio, Kiki Dimoula, Oleg Goncharenko, Shuhrat Abbosov, and István Gulyás. After him are Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Raúl Belén, Riane Eisler, Malcolm Browne, Anahita Ratebzad, and Luciano Tesi. Among people deceased in 2023, Yaakov Ziv ranks 456. Before him are Anna Kanakis, Mikio Aoki, Phyllis Coates, Agustí Villaronga, Denys Monastyrsky, and Salma Khadra Jayyusi. After him are Ama Ata Aidoo, Stéphane Demol, Richard Murphy, Martin Davis, Kusuma Wardhani, and Yuliya Borisova.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yaakov Ziv ranks 292 out of 466. Before him are Eli Cohen (1972), Menachem Bello (1947), Shlomo Artzi (1949), Uri Ariel (1952), Moshe Castel (1909), and Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926). After him are Merav Michaeli (1966), Leigh Bardugo (1975), Yuval Steinitz (1958), Yariv Levin (1969), Ishtar (1968), and Hany Abu-Assad (1961).

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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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