On September 25th, 2007, the IEEE ISRAEL LIFE MEMBER GROUP and the compote science department organized an event to honor professor Abraham Lempel, IEEE Life Fellow, for being awarded the 2007 IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL “For pioneering work in data compression especially the Lempel-Ziv Algorithm”. After the greetings, Prof. Lempel gave a talk about the history of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm. [Back to the news index]