Terry Welch
Terry Welch | |
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| Born | Terry Archer Welch January 20, 1939 |
| Died | November 22, 1988 (aged 49) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) compression |
| Spouse | Raylene Welch |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Bounds on Information Retrieval Efficiency in Static File Structures (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Elias |
| Doctoral students | Nick Tredennick |
Terry Archer Welch (January 20, 1939 – November 22, 1988) was an American computer scientist. Along with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, he developed the lossless Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) compression algorithm, which was published in 1984.