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  • Bijective BWT (2 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 (107 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

    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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.

Archive for August, 2005

Big Bucks Rolling In

23rd August 2005

Serious grant money for Info Theory researchers at UCSD

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Sun Announces Open-Source DRM Project

22nd August 2005

Sun Microsystems Inc., weighing in on the fractious issue of protecting copyrighted digital content, on Sunday announced a project it calls the Open Media Commons initiative aimed at creating an open-source, royalty-free digital-rights management standard. (Reuters)

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SIGGRAPH 2005 Impressions

20th August 2005

A round up of SIGGRAPH 2005 from Post Magazine, Gamasutra and more.

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Software Robots Can Outperform People on the Stock Markets?

20th August 2005

New Scientist is running an article on how software robots can outperform people on the stock markets, and they mention this as just the beginning. What has this got to do with Data Compression? read on…

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Universal Music backs Blu-ray

19th August 2005

Universal Music backs Blu-ray, but they still have to decide on the audio codec. After Blu-ray vs HD-DVD, are we in for codec trouble too?

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Skype to Add Video

19th August 2005

Skype is reportedly starting a public beta next month of a video add-on to their popular IP phone services

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Intelligent Design From Information Theory?

17th August 2005

Tech pundit George Gilder apparently uses Information Theory as an argument in favor of Intelligent Design.

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ISO to Review OpenType as Font Standard for MPEG-4

17th August 2005

The standardization of OpenType has application beyond MPEG but the press releases focus on that area…

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Zip class library for .NET developers

16th August 2005

Resco Releases Resco Zip .NET

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QUALCOMM Licenses IP Header Compression Technology from Effnet

15th August 2005

In a press release, Effnet AB and QUALCOMM Incorporated today announced that QUALCOMM has obtained a production license for Effnet’s IP Header Compression software.

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