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Terry Welch
Cryptographer

Terry Welch

American computer scientist

Life
1939 – 1988
Born
January 20, 1939
Died
November 22, 1988
Nationality
United States

Terry Archer Welch was an American computer scientist. Along with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, he developed the lossless Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) compression algorithm, which was published in 1984.

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