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| Type | Defunct |
|---|---|
| Founded | West Palm Beach, Florida (date needed) |
| Headquarters | (address needed) |
| Key people | Peter St. George (Chief Executive Officer) |
| Industry | Information technology |
| Products | Zero Space Tuner (unreleased) BinaryAccelerator (unreleased) BitPerfect (unreleased) TunerAccelerator (unreleased) |
| Employees | claimed more than 30 worldwide |
ZeoSync is a company that in 2002 announced a lossless data compression product they claimed could achieve a compression ratio of 100:1 on random data.1 If true, this would have exceeded the Shannon limit—an established principle of information theory held true since 1948. The technology was never demonstrated, and the company's website disappeared a few months later.
Though Zeosync's claims were ridiculed on Usenet[1] and Slashdot[2], the naming of several well-known mathematicians on their staff generated interest. Fields Medal winner Steve Smale was listed as a consultant, though Smale quickly distanced himself from the project by stating that he'd only spent "one hour" on the project and was "in no position to say anything about these claims."2
External links
- comp.compression FAQ covering claims by ZeoSync
- Wired interview with Peter St George
- original Powerpoint presentation archived from the ZeoSync website at the time
- PC World article "Experts Question Compression Breakthrough" 1/11/2002
References
- ^ "Web archive copy of 2002 ZeoSync press release from Reuters" (HTML). Reuters. Retrieved on 2007-07-05.
- ^ "PC Magazine Interview with Peter St. George" (HTML). PC Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-07-05.
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- This page was last modified on 6 May 2008, at 16:23.
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