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 ## License
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
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+## Acknowledgments 🏆
+
+This project is inspired by and--in some cases--directly based upon the existing, excellent work of many researchers
+and OSS developers. 
+
+In particular, the following academic papers greatly influenced the development:
+* Maximilian Kuschewski, David Sauerwein, Adnan Alhomssi, and Viktor Leis. 2023. [BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression 
+for Data Lakes](https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/fileadmin/w00cfj/dis/papers/btrblocks.pdf). Proc. ACM Manag. Data 1, 2, 
+Article 118 (June 2023), 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589263
+* Azim Afroozeh and Peter Boncz. [The FastLanes Compression Layout: Decoding >100 Billion Integers per Second with Scalar
+Code](https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p2132-afroozeh.pdf). PVLDB, 16(9): 2132 - 2144, 2023.
+* Peter Boncz, Thomas Neumann, and Viktor Leis. [FSST: Fast Random Access String 
+Compression](https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p2649-boncz.pdf).
+PVLDB, 13(11): 2649-2661, 2020.
+* Azim Afroozeh, Leonardo X. Kuffo, and Peter Boncz. 2023. [ALP: Adaptive Lossless floating-Point 
+Compression](https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/33334/33334.pdf). Proc. ACM
+Manag. Data 1, 4 (SIGMOD), Article 230 (December 2023), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626717
+
+Additionally, we benefited greatly from:
+* the collected OSS work of [Daniel Lemire](https://github.com/lemire), such as [FastPFor](https://github.com/lemire/FastPFor),
+and [StreamVByte](https://github.com/lemire/streamvbyte).
+* the [parquet2](https://github.com/jorgecarleitao/parquet2) project by [Jorge Leitao](https://github.com/jorgecarleitao).
+* the public discussions around choices of compression codecs, as well as the C++ implementations thereof,
+from [duckdb](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb).
+* the existence, ideas, & implementation of the [Apache Arrow](https://arrow.apache.org) project.
+* the [Velox](https://github.com/facebookincubator/velox) project and discussions with its maintainers.
+
+Thanks to all of the aforementioned for sharing their work and knowledge with the world! 🚀