Grumpy Old Geeks People Nasir Ahmed Person Nasir Ahmed 2 mentions in 1 episode An engineer the hosts recognize for developing the discrete cosine transform in 1974. Mentions 662: Tempest in an Instant Pot Aug 24, 2024 57:50 Nasir Ahmed, an Indian American engineer whose breakthrough in digital compression made JPEGs and MPEGs possible 58:06 In 1974, Ahmed developed the discrete cosine transform or the DCT algorithm