Trajectory data compression and simplification techniques have emerged as essential tools for managing the ever‐increasing volumes of spatio‐temporal data generated by GPS devices and other ...

People store large quantities of data in their electronic devices and transfer some of this data to others, whether for professional or personal reasons. Data compression methods are thus of the ...

Facebook Inc.’s software team has spent the last two years working on a way to compress application code with a view to keeping app sizes more manageable, ultimately coming up with a new technique ...

A novel technique rethinks hardware data compression to free up more memory used by computers and mobile devices, allowing them to run faster and perform more tasks simultaneously. A novel technique ...

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.

IT and database managers face the backup window dilemma all too often as data volumes continue to grow typically by as much as 50% annually. The result is that operations drive organizations’ data ...

In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing ...

Compression, as the name implies, squeezes or “compresses” the size of a file or data set. Compression techniques are used for voice, video, audio, text, and program data in hundreds of different ...

In a tiny office in West Palm Beach, Fla., a handful of clunky computers are crunching through a software problem that many consider unsolvable. These are the offices of ZeoSync, a start-up that made ...