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- From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
- Subject: Experts in compression (Re: Autodoubler)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.172748.18389@netcom.com>
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- References: <BytouD.Dzz@iat.holonet.net> <1992Dec6.222713.24881@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <mxmora-111292163056@css-mac1.sri.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:27:48 GMT
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- In article <mxmora-111292163056@css-mac1.sri.com> mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matthew Xavier Mora) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec6.222713.24881@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
- >jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore) wrote:
- >>
- >> In article <BytouD.Dzz@iat.holonet.net> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
- >> >Fact: I know someone who is an expert in compression technologies (if not
- >> >*THE* expert for LZ based algorithms.
- >
- >> Fact? how do _we_ know this is a fact? You better have proof if you wanna
- >> call someone an "expert", let alone "*THE* expert". I consider Bill Goodman
- >> an expert, because he wrote a fairly useful and well-designed compression
- >> utility. I consider Raymond Lau an expert, because he wrote a compression
- >> utility that has basically become an industry standard.
- >
- >I wouldn't consider Ray Lau an expert in compression since he used what was
- >available at the the time.
- >
- Well, if you look at a 15 year old kid writing his first real
- application, that's true he used what was available. However that was 1986/87
- and he is now finishing up his degree at MIT and _IS_ an expert in compression
- having written some of the new algorithms that we now use.
-
- >Now, Ross Williams I would consider an expert
- >and some of the other folx on comp.compression. Maybe that's who Bill is
- >talking about.
- >
- I agree with that as well, people like Ross and others in c.compression.
- research, are the "experts".
-
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