ZeoSync

Infobox_Company
company_name = ZeoSync
company_
slogan =
type = Defunct
foundation = West Palm Beach, Florida (date needed)
location = (address needed)
key_people = Peter St. George (Chief Executive Officer)
industry = Information technology
num_employees = claimed more than 30 worldwide
products = Zero Space Tuner (unreleased)
BinaryAccelerator (unreleased)
BitPerfect (unreleased)
TunerAccelerator (unreleased)

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.cite web
url = http://web.archive.org/web/20020112225725/http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=498720
title = Web archive copy of 2002 ZeoSync press release from Reuters
format = HTML
work = Reuters
accessdate = 2007-07-05] 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 [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.compression/search?group=comp.compression&q=zeosync&qt_g=Search+this+group] and Slashdot [http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/08/137246&mode=thread] , 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."cite web
url = http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,79223-page,1/article.html
title = PC Magazine Interview with Peter St. George
format = HTML
work = PC Magazine
accessdate = 2007-07-05]

External links

* [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-8.html comp.compression FAQ covering claims by ZeoSync]
* [http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/01/49599 Wired interview with Peter St George]
* [http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/eric.bodden/files/ac/zeosync.pps original Powerpoint presentation archived from the ZeoSync website at the time]
* [http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,79223-page,1/article.html PC World article "Experts Question Compression Breakthrough" 1/11/2002]

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