data compression

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1. A technique in information technology by which the same amount of data is transmitted by using a smaller number of bits; for example, by replacing a string of ten repeated digits with a command to repeat the digit ten times.

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Data compression is essential in technologies that transmit things like digitized movies in real time.

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These included exploring computationally efficient AI algorithms, selecting hardware that requires less energy, using data compression techniques, removing redundant data, implementing tiered storage systems and partnering with providers that use renewable energy.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024

This in turn means an optimization of the information content, or the most effective data compression.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2023

These entropies quantify not only uncertainty but also the efficiency with which we can perform information-processing tasks, like data compression, and thermodynamic tasks, like the powering of a car.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2020

His homepage on MIT’s website includes this line: “Right now, I spend most of my time thinking about discrete Schrödinger operators, high dimensional data compression, algebraic multigrid, and Voronoi diagrams.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2017

A proprietary standard of error control and data compression.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd