Jack Keil Wolf

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Dr. Jack Keil Wolf is a noted American researcher in information theory and coding theory.

Wolf was born in Newark, New Jersey, 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 Nonstaionary Random Processes". He held faculty appointments at New York University 1963-1965, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1965-1973 and the University of Massachusetts at 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 has also held a part-time appointment at Qualcomm since its formation in 1985.

Wolf is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an IEEE Fellow. He was president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1974, and received the 1998 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communication Award, the 2001 Information Theory Society's Claude E. Shannon Award, and the 2004 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.