Comments on: Data Compression Conference 2008, Call For Papers

By: Nadav Kedem

Nadav Kedem — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:18:27 +0000

Please send me more information

By: Nadav Kedem

Nadav Kedem — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:08:40 +0000

Could you send me registation / price information

By: Sachin Garg

Sachin Garg — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:34:29 +0000

The fee is $485 for IEEE or affiliate members, $585 for non-members, and $385 for full-time students.

For more information on registration:
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/Registration.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:05:54 +0000

Sachin,
I am just beginning my research. Do you know where I might find some info on the market size for data compressed technology?
David

By: Sachin Garg

Sachin Garg — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:22:40 +0000

Thats not a easy question to answer, I am not a marketing analyst and there is no ‘one’ data compression market :-)

It will depend a lot on what ‘application’ you want your research to be used for, and then maybe look at size of that market. If its a very generic compression thing, then list all the applications that will have a compelling enough reason to use it (5% better compression is not compelling enough to make people stop using zip).

I know I haven’t really answered your question but this is best I can do :-)

By: Matt Mahoney

Matt Mahoney — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:10:53 +0000

It is tough to compete with free software. Speaking from experience, you are better off giving your software away. If it is good, then opportunity will follow.

By: Earl Colby Pottinger

Earl Colby Pottinger — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:56:33 +0000

You don’t even need to give away the compressor code! RAR seems to do well considering that only the decompressor is open-source.

PKWare is still in business even with all the free zip utilities available out there.

And so on.

By: Sachin Garg

Sachin Garg — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:04:24 +0000

As far as I know, only the decompressor of an older version of RAR format is opensource.

By: Earl Colby Pottinger

Earl Colby Pottinger — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:30:05 +0000

You are probably right. But that just proves the point too seeing how the early RAR decompressor started up being available for most OSes of the time.

Give them a taste, don’t give out the family jewels, just a taste. And if your system is any good you will develop interest in your system even if it is closed source. On the other-hand if you try to lock everything and demand money/NDA to even let someone test your ideas, one should not be surprise if no-one bothers to look at your system.

By: Sachin Garg

Sachin Garg — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:11:10 +0000

Yes, this makes sense.