Presented by: The Honorable Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of the Republic of Italy at the Universita di Bologna.

Professor Ziv made contributions to the communications field through his innovations in data-compression, information theory, and statistical communication. Particularly important was his work on the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which allows for efficient encoding. Professor Ziv was the President of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Dr. Ziv passed away in 2023.