Automatic data compression
- 1 November 1967
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 10 (11), 711-715
- https://doi.org/10.1145/363790.363813
Abstract
The “information explosion” noted in recent years makes it essential that storage requirements for all information be kept to a minimum. A fully automatic and rapid three-part compressor which can be used with “ any ” body of information to greatly reduce slow external storage requirements and to increase the rate of information transmission through a computer is described in this paper. The system will also automatically decode the compressed information on an item-by-item basis when it is required. The three component compressors, which can be used separately to accomplish their specific tasks, are discussed: NUPAK for the automatic compression of numerical data, ANPAK for the automatic compression of “ any ” information, and IOPAK for further compression of information to be stored on tape or cards.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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