
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.


