A file compression utility using Huffman Coding. This project analyzes character frequencies in a text file, builds a Huffman tree, and encodes each character with optimized variable-length binary ...

Cloud syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today announced that it has released an image compression algorithm called Lepton under an Apache open source license on GitHub. Lepton can both ...

A team of engineers at Dropbox’s Hack Week re-created the fictional compression schema from HBO’s Silicon Valley. You would be forgiven for thinking that the elevator pitch for Daniel Reiter Horn’s ...

At this week’s Dropbox Hack, a team of engineers looked to art to inspire life, creating their own ‘pied piper’ image compression algorithm, as per the TV show Silicon Valley. Daniel Rieter Horn’s ...

Facebook is open sourcing a new compression algorithm called Zstandard that aims to replace the common technology behind the Zip file format. The most common algorithm behind the Zip file format is ...