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发帖数: 74 | 1 October 8, 1999
Contact: Tim Stephens/Jim Burns, 831/459-2495
Eminent UCSC computer scientist David Huffman dies at age 74
'Huffman Codes' used in fax machines, modems, other applications involving the
compression of data
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SANTA CRUZ, CA--David A. Huffman, the founding faculty member of the Computer
Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a pioneer in the field,
died at a local hospital on Thursday, October 7, after a 10-month battle with cancer. |
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