The sound of science : "Lars Liljeryd woke up one morning in 1996 with a hangover and an idea that would transform the science of digital audio.
A Swedish inventor and erstwhile rock drummer, Liljeryd had toyed with ways of compressing and transforming audio for years. That morning, he came up with a way of radically shrinking the amount of information needed to store a song or speech in digital form. "

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