Jack Wolf

{{Short description|American computer scientist (1935–2011)}} {{COI|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Jack Wolf | 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.<ref>[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."</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

==Awards and honors== * [[IEEE Fellow]] (1973)<ref>{{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 }}</ref> * [[Guggenheim Fellow]] (1979)<ref>{{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 }}</ref> * Member of the [[United States National Academy of Engineering|U.S. National Academy of Engineering]] (1993)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/28337.aspx |title=NAE Members Directory - Dr. Jack Keil Wolf |publisher=[[United States National Academy of Engineering|NAE]] |access-date=May 15, 2011}}</ref> * [[IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award]] (1998)<ref>{{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 }}</ref> * [[Claude E. Shannon Award]] from the [[IEEE Information Theory Society]] (2001)<ref>{{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 }}</ref> * [[IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal]] (2004)<ref>{{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}}</ref> * Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2005)<ref name=AAAS>{{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}}</ref> * Member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|U.S. National Academy of Sciences]] (2010)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir?sid=1011&view=basic&pg=srch |title=NAS Membership Directory |publisher=[[United States National Academy of Sciences|NAS]] |access-date=May 15, 2011}}</ref> * Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]<ref>{{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</ref> * [[Marconi Prize]] from and Fellow of the [[Marconi Society]] (2011)<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== *{{MathGenealogy|id=129705}} * {{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}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071210140429/http://www.ee.princeton.edu/people/alumni/iss/?id=79ffc679e848f66b0f7e16c88ff2ceec Princeton alumni profiles] * {{cite web |url=http://www.itsoc.org/portal_memberdata/jwolf |title=Jack Keil Wolf |publisher=[[IEEE Information Theory Society]] |access-date=May 27, 2011 |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721222834/http://www.itsoc.org/portal_memberdata/jwolf |url-status=dead }} * [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/wolf/ CMRR Faculty Page]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [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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