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| \emph{David Albert Huffman} (1925 - 1999) American mathematician, best known for Huffman coding used in many lossless data compression \PMlinkescapetext{schemes}. |
\emph{David Albert Huffman} (1925 - 1999) American mathematician, best known for Huffman coding used in many lossless data compression \PMlinkescapetext{schemes}. |
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| Huffman served in the U. S. Navy during World War II as a radar maintenance officer on a destroyer. After the war, he continued his studies at Ohio \PMlinkescapetext{State} University and earned a PhD from MIT in 1953 and joined the faculty there that year. |
Huffman served in the U. S. Navy during World War II as a radar maintenance officer on a destroyer. After the war, he continued his studies at Ohio \PMlinkescapetext{State} University and earned a PhD from MIT in 1953 and joined the faculty there that year. |
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