IT and database managers face the backup window dilemma all too often as data volumes continue to grow typically by as much as 50% annually. The result is that operations drive organizations’ data ...

Trajectory data compression and simplification techniques have emerged as essential tools for managing the ever‐increasing volumes of spatio‐temporal data generated by GPS devices and other ...

People store large quantities of data in their electronic devices and transfer some of this data to others, whether for professional or personal reasons. Data compression methods are thus of the ...

A new form of data compression, called Zippads, will create faster computer programs that could drastically lower the costs of computing. There’s a major problem with today’s money-saving memory ...

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.

Facebook Inc.’s software team has spent the last two years working on a way to compress application code with a view to keeping app sizes more manageable, ultimately coming up with a new technique ...

Sept. 2, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $13.7 million in funding for nine research projects that will advance the state of the art in computer science and applied ...

Images transmitted over the world wide web are an excellent example of why data compression is important. Suppose we need to download a digitized color photograph over a computer's 33.6 kbps modem. If ...

Google is open-sourcing a new general purpose data compression library called Zopfli that can be used to speed up Web downloads. The Zopfli Compression Algorithm, which got its name from a Swiss bread ...

Compression technology benefits our daily lives so entirely, it goes unnoticed. It’s been a long, bizarre trip since compression’s early days in the 1950s, when mathematicians first developed lossless ...

ZeroPoint Technologies AB, a startup with hardware that enables processors to make more efficient use of DRAM, has secured $5.5 million in early-stage funding. The company said in its announcement of ...