Jack Wolf
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Jack Wolf | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Ph.D. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| 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
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]
- 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
- ^ Distinguished Weequahic Alumni, Weequahic High School Alumni Association. Accessed December 19, 2019. "Jack Keil Wolf (1952) a nationally recognized computer theorist and engineer."
- ^ "Jack Wolf, Who Did the Math Behind Computers, Dies at 76". The New York Times. May 20, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
- IEEE. Archived from the originalon June 29, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "Fellows - Jack Keil Wolf". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on September 21, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
- NAE. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- IEEE. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2010-11-24. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- IEEE Information Theory Society. Archived from the originalon June 30, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- IEEE. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter W" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
- NAS. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "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
- ^ 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. 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)
