Jack Wolf

Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Weequahic High School in 1952.[http://weequahicalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Distinguished-Weequahic-Alumni-Revised-01-12-18.pdf Distinguished Weequahic Alumni], Weequahic High School Alumni Association. Accessed December 19, 2019. "Jack Keil Wolf (1952) a nationally recognized computer theorist and engineer." 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.{{cite news |title= Jack Wolf, Who Did the Math Behind Computers, Dies at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/technology/21wolf.html?ref=technology |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 20, 2011 |access-date=2011-05-21 }}

• IEEE Fellow (1973){{cite web |url=http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_1973.html |title=Fellow Class of 1973 |publisher=IEEE |access-date=May 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629170410/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_1973.html |archive-date=June 29, 2011 }}
• Guggenheim Fellow (1979){{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=Wolf&lower_bound=1979&upper_bound=1979&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=19&y=9 |title=Fellows - Jack Keil Wolf |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=May 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=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 |archive-date=September 21, 2012 }}
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1993){{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/28337.aspx |title=NAE Members Directory - Dr. Jack Keil Wolf |publisher=NAE |access-date=May 15, 2011}}
• IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1998){{cite web |url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/kobayashi_rl.pdf |title=IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE |access-date=May 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124233804/http://ieee.org/documents/kobayashi_rl.pdf |archive-date=2010-11-24 |url-status=dead }}
• Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society (2001){{cite web |url=http://www.itsoc.org/honors/claude-e.-shannon-award/ |title=Claude E. Shannon Award |publisher=IEEE Information Theory Society |access-date=February 20, 2011 |archive-date=June 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630053210/http://www.itsoc.org/honors/claude-e.-shannon-award/ |url-status=dead }}
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2004){{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620000223/http://ieee.org/documents/hamming_rl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 20, 2010 |title=IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients |publisher=IEEE |access-date=May 15, 2011}}
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005){{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter W|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 18, 2011}}
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2010){{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir?sid=1011&view=basic&pg=srch |title=NAS Membership Directory |publisher=NAS |access-date=May 15, 2011}}
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science{{cite web|title=Fellows |url=http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |access-date=May 21, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115191304/http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php |archive-date=January 15, 2014 }} Search by Name=W and Search By Section=Engineering
• Marconi Prize from and Fellow of the Marconi Society (2011){{cite news |title=2011 Marconi Prize goes to giants of cellular communications, data storage |url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-marconi-prize-jacobs-wolf.html?hpg1=bn |author=Bob Brown |newspaper=networkworld.com |publisher=Network World |date=June 6, 2011 |access-date=June 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015045155/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-marconi-prize-jacobs-wolf.html?hpg1=bn |archive-date=October 15, 2012 }}

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• {{cite web|url=http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty_bios/index.sfe?fmp_recid=77 |title=Faculty Profile - Jack K. Wolf |publisher=Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego |access-date=May 27, 2011}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/hamming_recipients.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415005322/http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/hamming_recipients.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |title=IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients - 2004 - Jack Keil Wolf |publisher=IEEE |access-date=May 27, 2011}}
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• {{cite web|url=http://www.itsoc.org/portal_memberdata/jwolf |title=Jack Keil Wolf |publisher=IEEE Information Theory Society |access-date=May 27, 2011}}
• [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/wolf/ CMRR Faculty Page]
• [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/wolf-jack.pdf Roberto Padovani, Paul H. Siegel, and Andrew J. Viterbi, "Jack Keil Wolf", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)]

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