Joan L. Mitchell
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| Born | May 24, 1947 |
| Died | December 2, 2015 (aged 68) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Known for | Co-inventor of JPEG digital image format. |
| Relatives | Eulalia Richardson Mitchell (grandmother, Physicist) |
Joan Laverne Mitchell (May 24, 1947 – December 2, 2015) was an American computer scientist, data compression pioneer, and inventor who, as a researcher at IBM, co-invented the JPEG digital image format.