Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers (The For Real Programmers Series)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780127887746
Subjects: Data compression; Software engineering; Programming Languages - General; Data compression (Computer sci; Algorithms (Computer Programming); Digital Image Processing; Computers; Computers - Languages / Programming; Programming - Software Development; Computer Books: General; Information Storage & Retrieval; Data compression (Computer science); Computer Graphics - Design; Computers / Computer Graphics / Design; Computers / Programming Languages / General; Computers : Computer Graphics - Design; Computers : Information Storage & Retrieval; Computer algorithms
First sentence: The science of compressing data is the art of creating shorthand representations for the data-that is, automatically finding abbreviations; i.e. yadda yadda yadda, etc.