Haruhiko Okumura

Japanese computer science education lecturer

Haruhiko Okumura (奥村晴彦, Okumura Haruhiko, born 1951) is a Japanese professor.

His public domain LZSS implementation from 1989 is used in many products.^[1] He also worked on an adding an arithmetic-encoding step to form LZARI, the precursor to LZH.^[2]

References

^ Simtel.net mirror. Haruhiko Okumura implementation of 1989. Archived on February 3, 1999.
^ Haruhiko Okumura. History of Data Compression in Japan. Archived on January 10, 2016.