Re: What is JPEG

Marilyn Bolak (mailto:mbolak@LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU)
Thu, 25 Aug 1994 08:59:12 -0700

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Date:         Thu, 25 Aug 1994 08:59:12 -0700
From: Marilyn Bolak <mailto:mbolak@LIBRARY.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What is JPEG
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On Wed, 24 Aug 1994, April Naylor wrote:

> I was wondering if someone could please explain what jpeg is, or at least for
> what the acronym stands? Thanks in advance. April

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is an algorithm standard for compression of color and gray-scale images.

Marilyn Bolak mailto:mbolak@library.berkeley.edu