Terry Welch (1939 to 1988) was an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who, with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, developed the lossless Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression algorithm, known as LZW. He earned his bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at MIT, taught at the University of Texas at Austin and worked on computer design at Honeywell. In 1976 he joined the Sperry Research Center in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as manager of computer architecture research, and it was there that he published the algorithm in the 1984 article A Technique for High-Performance Data Compression in the journal Computer. In 1983 he moved to Digital Equipment Corporation, where he liaised with MCC. He died of a brain tumor in 1988.
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He died of a brain tumor in 1988.
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While working at the Sperry Research Center, he published the LZW algorithm.
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