Electronics medal of honor

Professor Jacob Ziv of Israel’s Technion Institute is the first Israeli to be awarded the Medal of Honor by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Among his achievements, he co-invented the Wyner-Ziv algorithm and the Lempel-Ziv algorithm used to compress data (ZIP, GIF etc.).

https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2020/11/ieee-medal-of-honor-to-technion-living-legend-dist-prof-ziv/

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