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 ...

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 ...

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Sponsored Feature: Computers are taking over our daily tasks. For big tech, this means an increase in IT workloads and an expansion of advanced use cases in areas like artificial intelligence and ...

In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing ...

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 ...