ROSS

This web contains a record of most of my work in text data compression during the late 1980s and early 1990s. I created this web because the email I receive has shown that there is continued interest in these algorithms from students, academics and practitioners, and I thought it was about time I consolidated all my compression work into one well-organized resource... The algorithms I have created reside at opposite ends of the speed/compression tradeoff scale. From 1986 to 1989, while working towards my Ph.D., I researched text compression at the high-compression end of the scale and produced the SAKDC algorithm which was, to my knowledge, the highest-compression text compression algorithm in the world at the time. If you're interested in this high-compression algorithm, you may wish to take a look at my Ph.D. Thesis which was published as a book (which you can purchase online)... Upon graduating, I decided to explore the other end of the scale and from 1990 to 1992 produced the..

Also known as: Ross N