The Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science was originally established as a department in 1969. In 1980 it became an independent Faculty headed by Abraham Lampel, one of the top Israeli computer scientists and inventor of the Lampel-Ziv algorithm. The Faculty of Computer Science is the second largest academic unit at the Technion (the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering is largest), with approximately 1,800 undergraduate students and approximately 300 graduate students.