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There are two types of compression: lossless and lossy. Lossy compression achieves a greater reduction in file sizes by carefully discarding data that doesn't greatly affect the results. JPEG and MP3 ...

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2013-207-2013) proposed ADAM, a cloud-computing framework for genomic data compression, which combines various data compression ...

In a world with finite storage and an infinite need for more storage space, data compression becomes a very necessary problem. Several algorithms for data compression may be more familiar – Huffman ...

A researcher has created a new kind of zip bomb -- one that doesn't require recursion to inflate relatively small sizes into petabytes of unzipped data. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...