AWhat changed
Published a reversible block-sorting transform and demonstrated a complete lossless compression pipeline.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author Digital SRC Research Report 124 dated 10 May 1994. Wheeler's unpublished 1983 antecedent, move-to-front coding, entropy coding, bzip2 and later text-indexing uses remain separately attributable.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author Digital SRC Research Report 124 dated 10 May 1994. Wheeler's unpublished 1983 antecedent, move-to-front coding, entropy coding, bzip2 and later text-indexing uses remain separately attributable.
Contributors
- Michael Burrows · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- David J. Wheeler · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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