However, David Huffman is best known for his legendary Huffman code, an optimal compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding, the result of a term paper he wrote while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
However, David Huffman is best known for his legendary Huffman code he wrote while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His legendary Huffman code was an optimal compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding. Lossless variable length encoding was the result of a term paper.