Jack Keil Wolf, American electrical engineer, educator. Achievements include research on information theory, communication theory, computer/communication networks, magnetic recording. National Science Foundation senior postdoctoral fellow, 1971-1972; Guggenheim fellow, 1979-1980.
Background
Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1960 for his thesis "On the Detection and Estimation Problem for Multiple Nonstationary Random Processes".
Education
Bachelor of Science, University Pennsylvania, 1956. Microsoft Security Essentials., Princeton, 1957. Master of Arts, Princeton, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton, 1960.
Career
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 Radio Corporation of America 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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society in 1974.
He died on May 12, 2011. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow (1973).
Achievements
Membership
Served with United States Air Force, 1960-1963. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (president information theory group 1974, co-recipient information theory group prize paper award 1975, co-recipient Comm. Society prize paper award 1993), National Academy Engineering (Koji Kobayashi medal 1998).
Member Sigma Xi, Sigma Tau, Eta Kappa Nu, Pi Mu Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi.
Connections
Married Toby Katz, September 10, 1955. Children— Joseph Martin, Jay Steven, Sarah Keil.
Guggenheim Fellowship
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal; Claude E. Shannon Award; Arts and Sciences; Marconi Prize
The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing advancements in communications awarded by the Marconi Foundation.; The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of Information Theory.; The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is presented annually to up to three persons, for outstanding achievements in information sciences, information systems and information technology.
The Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing advancements in communications awarded by the Marconi Foundation.; The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of Information Theory.; The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is presented annually to up to three persons, for outstanding achievements in information sciences, information systems and information technology.