Prof. Lampel passed away – the inventor who made the MP3 revolution possible

The article calls him “Lampel“, not “Lempel” as in Lempel-Ziv compression. That’s a bit strange but maybe just a pronunciation variant in Hebrew?

What’s more concerning is that the article doesn’t seem to understand the difference between lossless compression (which Lempel significantly contributed to) and lossy compression using psychoacoustic models as used in MP3 (and invented by Fraunhofer in Erlangen, Germany)…

Anyway, rest in peace…