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  • Bijective BWT (7 Comments)

    David Scott has written a bijective BWT transform, which brings all the advantages of bijectiveness to BWT based compressors. Among other things, making BWT more suitable for compression-before-encryption and also give (slightly) better compression.

  • Asymmetric Binary System (116 Comments)

    Jarek Duda’s “Asymmetric Binary System” promises to be an alternate to arithmetic coding, having all the advantages, but being much simpler. Matt has coded a PAQ based compressor using ABS for back-end encoding. Update: Andrew Polar has written an alternate implementation of ABS.

  • Precomp: More Compression for your Compressed Files (3 Comments)

    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them. Christian Schneider’s Precomp comes to rescue by undoing the harm.

  • On2 Technologies is Hiring

    There aren’t too many companies working on cutting edge codecs, and of those few this one is hiring. Best of luck.

  • China’s AVS Specifications Available (2 Comments)

    Its old news that China has developed their own Advanced Video Standard to avoid high licensing fees. English translation of the standard is now available, along with the IPR policy. Finally something technical that you can get your hands on to feed your appetite.

Intel Science Talent Search

Posted by Mark Nelson on 27th June 2005 | Permanent Link

Intel now runs the Intel Science Talent Search, the high school science competition that has a long history in the US. Lots of illustrious scientists have participated in this program over the years, and the roster includes winners of all sorts of other prizes. One of the finalists this year was Sisi Monica Chen from Duluth GA (yes, that Duluth GA!) Ms. Chen’s project was an analysis of the least number of 1’s needed to express any integer. I’d love to see a copy of the paper online, but all we have right now is this PDF press release.

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