- Jan Sloot
Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (1945?, Groningen—
11 July 1999 ,Nieuwegein ) was a Dutchelectronics technician , who claimed to have developed a revolutionarydata compression technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System, which could compress a complete movie down to 8kilobyte s of data— this is orders of magnitude greater compression than the best currently available technology.Despite the impossibility Fact|date=August 2008 of such a technique there were investors that saw potential. However, Sloot died of a heart attack one day before an attractive deal was signed with
Roel Pieper , former CTO and board member ofPhilips . The story - including an account of a believable demonstration of the technology - is told in modest detail inTom Perkins ' 2007 book, "Valley Boy". Perkins, co-founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firmKleiner Perkins , had agreed to invest in the technology when Sloot died; Perkins and Pieper would have proceeded after Sloot's death, but a key piece of the technology, a compiler stored on a floppy disk, had disappeared and despite months of searching was never recovered.External links
* [https://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-21154/Babet_Final_Report.pdf Broadband applications on limited bandwidth networks] (PDF) - see section 3.1.5, "Beyond the limits?"
* [http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/p.spronck/Sloot.htm The Stick of Jan Sloot]
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