Jack Wolf
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Jack Wolf | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Ph.D. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Doctoral advisor | John B. Thomas |
Jack Keil Wolf (March 14, 1935 – May 12, 2011) was an American researcher in information theory and coding theory.
Biography
Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1960 for his thesis "On the Detection and Estimation Problem for Multiple Nonstationary Random Processes". He held faculty appointments at New York University 1963–1965, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1965–1973 and the University of Massachusetts Amherst 1973–1984, and worked at RCA Laboratories and Bell Laboratories. In 1984, he joined the University of California, San Diego, where he applied communication and information theory to magnetic storage. He also held a part-time appointment at Qualcomm since its formation in 1985. He was president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1974. He died on May 12, 2011.[1]
Awards and honors
- IEEE Fellow (1973).[2]
- Guggenheim Fellow (1979)[3]
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1993)[4]
- IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1998)[5]
- Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society (2001)[6]
- IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2004)[7]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)[8]
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2010)[9]
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[10]
- Marconi Prize from and Fellow of the Marconi Society (2011)[11]
References
- ^ "Jack Wolf, Who Did the Math Behind Computers, Dies at 76". New York Times. May 20, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
Jack Keil Wolf, an engineer and computer theorist whose mathematical reasoning about how best to transmit and store information helped shape the digital innards of computers and other devices that power modern society, died on May 12 at his home in the La Jolla section of San Diego. He was 76. The cause was amyloidosis, a disorder caused by the buildup of a complex protein in body tissue or organs, his daughter Sarah Wolf said. ...
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Fellow Class of 1973". IEEE. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "Fellows - Jack Keil Wolf". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
- ^ "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Jack Keil Wolf". NAE. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "Claude E. Shannon Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter W" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
- ^ "NAS Membership Directory". NAS. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved May 21, 2011. Search by Name=W and Search By Section=Engineering
- ^ Bob Brown (June 6, 2011). "2011 Marconi Prize goes to giants of cellular communications, data storage". networkworld.com. Network World. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
External links
- Jack Wolf at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Faculty Profile - Jack K. Wolf". Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
- "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients - 2004 - Jack Keil Wolf". IEEE. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
- Princeton alumni profiles
- "Jack Keil Wolf". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
- CMRR Faculty Page
- 1935 births
- 2011 deaths
- American computer scientists
- Fellow Members of the IEEE
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Guggenheim Fellows
- American information theorists
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- New York University faculty
- People from Newark, New Jersey
- Princeton University alumni, 1960–69
- University of California, San Diego faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty