ZeoSync
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| Type | Defunct |
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| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | West Palm Beach, Florida (date needed) |
| Headquarters | (address needed) |
| Key people | Peter St. George (Chief Executive Officer) |
| 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] References
- ^ "Web archive copy of 2002 ZeoSync press release from Reuters". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2002-01-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20020112225725/http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=498720. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
- ^ "PC Magazine Interview with Peter St. George". PC Magazine. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,79223-page,1/article.html. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
