Jan Sloot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Sloot

Dutch computer scientst

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1945

Place of Birth: Groningen, Netherlands

Date of Death: 11-Jul-1999

Profession: technician

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (27 August 1945, Groningen – 11 July 1999, Nieuwegein) was a Dutch electronics engineer, who in 1995 claimed to have developed a revolutionary data sharing technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System, which could allegedly store a complete movie in 8 kilobytes of data — this is orders of magnitude greater compression than the best currently available technology as of 2019.
He died suddenly on July 11, 1999 of a heart attack, just days before the conclusion of a contract to sell the invention.
The full source code was never recovered, and the technique and claim has since never been reproduced or verified.