Data compression

Compact encoding of digital data

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2024 Matias moved to Silicon Valley to head Google Research, taking on leadership of the company's global research activities.
2020
Discrete cosine transform
JPEG XL image compression standard introduced as a royalty-free raster-graphics file format supporting both lossy and lossless compression.
2018
Discrete cosine transform
AV1 video coding standard is released as an open source format, developed from VP10, Daala, and Thor, and subsequently adopted by major content providers like YouTube and Netflix.

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