References, Credits and Further Reading
Want to find out more about compression? Here are the resources I used
and recommend:
Probably the easiest to get to is the comp.compression
Frequently Asked Questions,
especially their Introduction
to data compression.
Also, you can listen in on the comp.comression newsgroup.
Probably the best book I have seen on the subject of compression is:
The
Data Compression Book, 2nd edition
by Mark Nelson and Jean-loup Gailly,
M&T Books,
New York, NY 1995
ISBN 1-55851-434-1 541 pages
another decent book which you may be able to find at the library is:
Introduction to Data Compression
by Sayood Khalid,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
San Fransisc, CA 1996
ISBN 1-55860-346-8
Also, I the applet used in the Huffman part is by Walter Korman from his
article
"Data Compression:
Bits, Bytes and Beefalo" in Deep
Magic.
I'll have to contact him to see if it is ok. It's an excellent article,
by the way.