Joseph M. Bugajsky quit Ford Motor Co. in 1985 to pursue his dream of inventing a computer formula that would analyze and store data the same way the human brain does. This September, his efforts paid off with a U.S. patent on a system that spots patterns in data and compresses the data into "memories." These memories, Bugajsky says, take up only one-half of 1% of the original space. That could make them a boon to banks, libraries, and laboratories flooded with data.

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Compression down to 0.5% ?!? HA! Try saying that on comp.compression!!! Let's see... That's half a typed page of data crunched down into five bytes. Give me a break. That guy ought to be sued for false advertising. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi.