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In-place Huffman code length calculation
An in-place Huffman code length calculation demonstration from Alistair Moffat. The abstract of that paper may be fetched from this location.
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~alistair/inplace.cImage set used in ACT
A SET of 23 images totalling 27,133,146 bytes. The file type is RAS, does that mean that the files are a simple raster dump? I’m not sure. These files are listed in a few different places as being used in benchmarks.
ftp://ipl.rpi.edu/pub/image/still/KodakImages/color/Managing Gigabytes, 2nd Edition - Witten, Moffat, and Bell
The second edition of Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell, is now available (May 1999), published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, San Francisco, ISBN 1-55860-570-3.
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BA 0.99b - 1999, a Blocksorting Arithmetic compressor
Reputedly good BWT implementation, no source.
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2000 IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding
The 2000 IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding will be held from September 17-20,
2000, at Lake Lawn Resort, Delavan, Wisconsin, USA.
Range encoder Homepage
The range encoder is a fast multisymbol entropy coder (similar to arithmetic coding) with GNU general public license (other licenses on request). Its compression is within 0.01% of arithmetic coding. It is based on an article dated 1979, so it is believed to be patent free. This page includes a PS format paper by G.N.N […]
http://www.compressconsult.com/rangecoder/PNG: The Definitive Guide by Greg Roelofs
As the title says, this is the definitive guide to the PNG format. Greg discusses all aspects of PNG, including graphics programs, progrmaming with libpng, compression, filtering, the works. This is a must-read book if you want to support this free graphics format.
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8X8, Inc.
8×8 is a leading manufacturer of digital telecommunication products, including both central office and customer premise equipment for Internet Protocol (IP) telephony.
http://www.8x8.com/Aladdin Systems, Inc.
Aladdin makes quite a few different software products, but the one we are concerned with is Stuffit, probably the best known archiver for the Macintosh platform.
http://www.aladdinsys.com/Eminent UCSC computer scientist David Huffman dies at age 74
David A. Huffman, the founding faculty member of the Computer Science Department and a pioneer in the field, died at a local hospital on Thursday, October 7, after a 10-month battle with cancer. He was 74.
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