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Tree Source Identification with the Burrows Wheeler Transorm

Posted in March 28th, 2000

by D. Baron and Y. Bresler. Postscript paper describing a technique that uses BWT to preprocess a sequence of symbols, then mung.

http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~dbaron/ps/ciss_sub2.ps

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Archive Converter

Posted in March 23rd, 2000

This freeware program is used to convert archives from one format to another. It says it supports “any archiver,” I guess you can’t ask for more than that.

http://www.whitetown.com/acvt/

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Huffman.java

Posted in March 23rd, 2000

Advertises itself as “A dirty but free implementation of a huffman encoder/decoder in Java.” Not completely free, it is covered by the GLPL, and naturally includes fully documented source.

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu//pub/linux/devel/lang/java/libs/Huffman-1.00.zip

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Introduction to Data Compression, Second Edition

Posted in March 23rd, 2000
Published in Books, Data Compression

by Khalid Sayood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 2000 600 pages, $69.95, ISBN 1-55860-558-4. This is a college level introductory text that covers a very wide range of data compression topics.
Please use
this link to purchase the book through Amazon.com. Your purchase will help support this web site.

http://books.elsevier.com/us//mk/us/subindex.asp?maintarget=&isbn=1-55860-558-4&country=United+States&srccode=&ref=&subcode=&head=&pdf=&basiccode=&txtSearch=&SearchField=&operator=&order=&community=mk

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GeoEnergy, Inc.

Posted in March 23rd, 2000

Their home page advertises GeoEnergy as “The leader in fast data compression algorithms for the oil and gas industry.” Quite a few algorithms are listed, all of which work on various types of collected seismic data.

http://www.geoenergycorp.com/

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FileWrangler

Posted in March 15th, 2000
Published in Commercial Programs, Zip

Yet another file manager that knows how to work with GIF files.

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_fw.html

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An Experimental High Fidelity Perceptual Audio Coder Project in MUS420 Win 97

Posted in March 11th, 2000

A paper describing an experimental audio coder developed as some sort of class project.

http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~bosse/proj/proj.html

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Data Compression Benchmark Suite

Posted in March 10th, 2000

A set of links to files that are used to benchmark various data compression algorithms.

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~nasir/work/benchmark/

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Fast Exponentiation Using Data Compression

Posted in March 10th, 2000

Given the title, this paper has something to do with data compression. But I sure don’t get it.

http://epubs.siam.org/sam-bin/dbq/article/23497

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Slashdot Interview With Jean-loup Gailly

Posted in March 10th, 2000
Published in People, Data Compression

Jean-loup talks about Llinux, data compression, patents, and more.

http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/03/10/1043247.shtml

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Zoran Corporation

Posted in March 9th, 2000

Zoran makes chips that do some MPEG decoding as well as JPEG codecs.

http://www.zoran.com/

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DropZip by Aladdin Systems

Posted in March 9th, 2000

A commercial program that supports both the Stuffit and Zip formats. DropZip is available for both Mac and Windows platforms.

http://www.aladdinsys.com/dropzip/index.html

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ASPack - an Executable Compressor

Posted in March 9th, 2000

Another program for compression executables. This is a Win32 preprocessor that claims to reduce EXE size as much as 70%.

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/aspack.htm

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IBM Research - Image application solutions

Posted in March 8th, 2000

The image application group at IBM’s Watson Research Center works on quite a few different topics related to digital imaging, including image capture, color science, printing and displaying images, and so on. Of course, part of that is image compression, which is why we’re interested in them.

http://www.research.ibm.com/image_apps/

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CabPack

Posted in March 3rd, 2000

A freeware program that you can use to create CAB files.

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/english.htm

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fastJar

Posted in March 2nd, 2000

fastJar is a C version of Sun’s jar utility. Being written in C instead of Java gives this program a bit of a boost; albeit at the expense of purity.

http://fastjar.sourceforge.net/

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