China News Service, March 24. According to foreign media reports, Stephen Wilhite, an American computer scientist and inventor of the GIF image format, died on March 14 local time at the age of 74.
Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF image format, died on March 14, local time.
Image source: Screenshot of the NBC report
According to reports, his wife Katherine confirmed that Willhead died of the new crown.
In 1987, Wilhead created the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) to compress images, and in 2012, GIF was named Word of the Year by the Oxford American Dictionary.
Wilhead was awarded the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for inventing the GIF.