# Terry Welch

> Terry Archer Welch was an American computer scientist. Along with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, he developed the lossless Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm, which was published in 1984.

*American computer scientist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/terry-welch

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1939-01-20
- **Died:** 1988-11-22
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 42.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 6.2 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 7.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 31.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 45.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
- [特里·韦尔奇](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E9%9F%A6%E5%B0%94%E5%A5%87)
- [تيري ويلش](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B4)
- [Terry Welch](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch)
- [Terry Welch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch)
- [Terry Welch](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch)
- [Terry Welch](https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Welch)
- [Велч, Терри](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%87%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8)
- [Террі Велч](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%87)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92915)

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