Jack Wolf

Jack Keil Wolf (March 14, 1935 – May 12, 2011) was an American researcher in information theory and coding theory.

Jack Wolf
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University Ph.D.
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering
Doctoral advisor	John B. Thomas

Biography

Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Weequahic High School in 1952.^[1] He 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.^[2]

Awards and honors

• IEEE Fellow (1973)^[3]
• Guggenheim Fellow (1979)^[4]
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1993)^[5]
• IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1998)^[6]
• Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society (2001)^[7]
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2004)^[8]
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)^[9]
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2010)^[10]
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^[11]
• Marconi Prize from and Fellow of the Marconi Society (2011)^[12]

References

1. Distinguished Weequahic Alumni, Weequahic High School Alumni Association. Accessed December 19, 2019. "Jack Keil Wolf (1952) a nationally recognized computer theorist and engineer."
2. "Jack Wolf, Who Did the Math Behind Computers, Dies at 76". The New York Times. May 20, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
3. "Fellow Class of 1973". IEEE. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
4. "Fellows - Jack Keil Wolf". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on September 21, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
5. "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Jack Keil Wolf". NAE. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
6. "IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-24. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
7. "Claude E. Shannon Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
8. "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 20, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
9. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter W" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
10. "NAS Membership Directory". NAS. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
11. "Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2011. Search by Name=W and Search By Section=Engineering
12. Bob Brown (June 6, 2011). "2011 Marconi Prize goes to giants of cellular communications, data storage". networkworld.com. Network World. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. 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. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
• Princeton alumni profiles
• "Jack Keil Wolf". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
• CMRR Faculty Page
• Roberto Padovani, Paul H. Siegel, and Andrew J. Viterbi, "Jack Keil Wolf", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)