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Tree Source Identification with the Burrows Wheeler Transorm
by D. Baron and Y. Bresler. Postscript paper describing a technique that uses BWT to preprocess a sequence of symbols, then mung.
http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~dbaron/ps/ciss_sub2.psread more from " Tree Source Identification with the Burrows Wheeler Transorm "
Archive Converter
This freeware program is used to convert archives from one format to another. It says it supports “any archiver,” I guess you can’t ask for more than that.
http://www.whitetown.com/acvt/Huffman.java
Advertises itself as “A dirty but free implementation of a huffman encoder/decoder in Java.” Not completely free, it is covered by the GLPL, and naturally includes fully documented source.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu//pub/linux/devel/lang/java/libs/Huffman-1.00.zipIntroduction to Data Compression, Second Edition
by Khalid Sayood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 2000 600 pages, $69.95, ISBN 1-55860-558-4. This is a college level introductory text that covers a very wide range of data compression topics.
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GeoEnergy, Inc.
Their home page advertises GeoEnergy as “The leader in fast data compression algorithms for the oil and gas industry.” Quite a few algorithms are listed, all of which work on various types of collected seismic data.
http://www.geoenergycorp.com/FileWrangler
Yet another file manager that knows how to work with GIF files.
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_fw.htmlAn Experimental High Fidelity Perceptual Audio Coder Project in MUS420 Win 97
A paper describing an experimental audio coder developed as some sort of class project.
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~bosse/proj/proj.htmlread more from " An Experimental High Fidelity Perceptual Audio Coder Project in MUS420 Win 97 "
Data Compression Benchmark Suite
A set of links to files that are used to benchmark various data compression algorithms.
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~nasir/work/benchmark/Fast Exponentiation Using Data Compression
Given the title, this paper has something to do with data compression. But I sure don’t get it.
http://epubs.siam.org/sam-bin/dbq/article/23497read more from " Fast Exponentiation Using Data Compression "
Slashdot Interview With Jean-loup Gailly
Jean-loup talks about Llinux, data compression, patents, and more.
http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/03/10/1043247.shtmlZoran Corporation
Zoran makes chips that do some MPEG decoding as well as JPEG codecs.
http://www.zoran.com/DropZip by Aladdin Systems
A commercial program that supports both the Stuffit and Zip formats. DropZip is available for both Mac and Windows platforms.
http://www.aladdinsys.com/dropzip/index.htmlASPack - an Executable Compressor
Another program for compression executables. This is a Win32 preprocessor that claims to reduce EXE size as much as 70%.
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/aspack.htmIBM Research - Image application solutions
The image application group at IBM’s Watson Research Center works on quite a few different topics related to digital imaging, including image capture, color science, printing and displaying images, and so on. Of course, part of that is image compression, which is why we’re interested in them.
http://www.research.ibm.com/image_apps/read more from " IBM Research - Image application solutions "
CabPack
A freeware program that you can use to create CAB files.
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/english.htmfastJar
fastJar is a C version of Sun’s jar utility. Being written in C instead of Java gives this program a bit of a boost; albeit at the expense of purity.
http://fastjar.sourceforge.net/