Irwin Jacobs
Irwin Mark Jacobs (born October 18, 1933 in New Bedford ) is an American electrical engineer , co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm .
Life
Jacobs received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1956 and his master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1957 , where he received his PhD in 1959. He then became an associate professor at MIT and, in 1966, professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), which he remained until 1972.
In 1968 he founded the company Linkabit with Andrew Viterbi (after the merger with M / A-Com 1980 M / A Com-Linkabit ) for satellite communication technology. In 1985 he founded Qualcomm with Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen and Franklin Antonio . They created the OmniTracs satellite communication system for trucks. The code division multiple access (CDMA), which was used in OmniTRACS® is also, in certain wireless communications standards such as CDMA2000 used. Jacobs was CEO of Qualcomm until 2009 and was then replaced by his son Paul E. Jacobs.
Jacobs has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to universities (including Cornell, MIT, UCSD, Technion) and other institutions, especially in the San Diego area. The Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD is named after him and his wife. According to Forbes, his net worth was over $ 1.5 billion in 2013.
In 1994 he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and in 2011 the Marconi Prize with Jack Keil Wolf . In 2014 he became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum . In 2007 he received the IEEE / RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award with Andrew Viterbi and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2013 . In 1994 he received the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the IEEE and in 2001 the Bower Award for Entrepreneurs. Jacobs is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society .
He has been married to Joan Klein since 1954.
Fonts
- with John M. Wozencraft: Principles of Communication Engineering , Wiley 1965
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Irwin Mark Jacobs. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 11, 2018 (English, with a short biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobs, Irwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jacobs, Irwin Mark (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American electrical engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Bedford |