ZeoSync
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| ZeoSync | |
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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]
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
