Researcher finds optimal fix-free codes
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 13:42
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 50 years after David Huffman developed Huffman coding, an entropy encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression in computer science and information theory, an electrical and computer engineering faculty member at Texas A&M University has discovered a way to construct the most efficient fix-free codes.