Jack Wolf Explained

Jack Wolf
Nationality:	American
Field:	Electrical engineering
Alma Mater:	Princeton University Ph.D.
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, 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]

External links

• • Web site: Faculty Profile - Jack K. Wolf . . May 27, 2011.
• Web site: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients - 2004 - Jack Keil Wolf . https://archive.today/20130415005322/http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/hamming_recipients.html . dead . April 15, 2013 . . May 27, 2011.
• Princeton alumni profiles
• Web site: Jack Keil Wolf . . 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)

Notes and References

1. http://weequahicalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Distinguished-Weequahic-Alumni-Revised-01-12-18.pdf Distinguished Weequahic Alumni
2. News: Jack Wolf, Who Did the Math Behind Computers, Dies at 76 . . May 20, 2011 . 2011-05-21 .
3. Web site: Fellow Class of 1973 . . May 15, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629170410/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_1973.html . June 29, 2011 .
4. Web site: Fellows - Jack Keil Wolf . . May 18, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120921225705/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Wolf&lower_bound=1979&upper_bound=1979&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=19&y=9 . September 21, 2012 .
5. Web site: NAE Members Directory - Dr. Jack Keil Wolf . . May 15, 2011.
6. Web site: IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients . . May 15, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101124233804/http://ieee.org/documents/kobayashi_rl.pdf . 2010-11-24 . dead .
7. Web site: Claude E. Shannon Award . . February 20, 2011 . June 30, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120630053210/http://www.itsoc.org/honors/claude-e.-shannon-award/ . dead .
8. Web site: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients . https://web.archive.org/web/20100620000223/http://ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf . dead . June 20, 2010 . . May 15, 2011.
9. Web site: Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter W. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. May 18, 2011.
10. Web site: NAS Membership Directory . . May 15, 2011.
11. Web site: Fellows . . May 21, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140115191304/http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php . January 15, 2014 . Search by Name=W and Search By Section=Engineering
12. News: 2011 Marconi Prize goes to giants of cellular communications, data storage . Bob Brown . networkworld.com . Network World . June 6, 2011 . June 7, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015045155/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-marconi-prize-jacobs-wolf.html?hpg1=bn . October 15, 2012 .