The Data Compression Book

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The Data Compression Book Jean-Loup Gailly, Mark Nelson
Type:	eBook
Released:	1995
Publisher:	M&T Books
Page Count:	370
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	1558514341
ISBN-13:	9781558514348

Topics in this guide to data compression techniques include the Shannon-Fano and Huffman coding techniques, Lossy compression, the JPEG compression algorithm, and fractal compression.The Data Compression Book Textbook Readers also study adaptive Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, dictionary compression methods, and learn to write C programs for nearly any environment. The disk illustrates each learned technique and demonstrates how data compression works. About the Author Jean-Loup Gailly, a software consultant with more than 15 years of programming experience, wrote the compression code of the freeware zip archiver and is the author of the gzip data-compression program.; C++ programming expert Mark Nelson is director of software development for Greenleaf Software, Inc., and is contributing editor and columnist for Windows/DOS Developer's Journal. Mark's articles have been published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, C User's Journal, and Windows Tech Journal, among other publications. He has written best-selling books on data compression and serial communications.