Only a handful of engineering luminaries know what it feels like to get “The Call” from IEEE Spectrum senior editor Tekla S. Perry. It’s a rite of passage, a vital part of the process of being selected by IEEE as ...

Jacob Ziv, codeveloper of the Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm, died on 26 March at the age of 91. The IEEE Life Fellow was awarded the 2021 IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, ...