Jack Wedge Wolf

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Jack Keil Wolf (born March 14, 1935 in Newark , New Jersey , † May 12, 2011 in La Jolla , California ) was an American computer scientist , known for contributions to coding theory and information theory .

Wolf graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Princeton University under John Bowman Thomas in 1960 ( On the detection and estimation problem for multiple nonstationary random processes ). From 1960 to 1962 he was an instructor at Syracuse University , from 1963 to 1965 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University and then Associate Professor and later Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn . In 1971/72 he was visiting professor at the University of Hawaii. In 1973 he became Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (and worked at RCA Laboratories and Bell Laboratories ) and in 1985 Professor at the University of California, San Diego , as Stephen O. Rice Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering . At the same time he was at Qualcomm , where he was Vice President Technology .

With David Slepian he achieved fundamental results in coding multiple sources (Slepian Wolf Coding, 1973). He later dealt with the application of information theory to data storage.

In 1974 he was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society . He was a Fellow of the IEEE , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the National Academy of Sciences (2010), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005), and the National Academy of Engineering (1993). In 2011 he received the Marconi Prize, 2004 the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal , the IEEE Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award in 1998 and the Claude E. Shannon Award in 2001 . In 1979 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Obituary in the New York Times
  3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Slepian Wolf Coding, Scholarpedia
  5. ↑ Slepian, Wolf Noiseless coding of correlated information sources , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 19, 1973, pp. 471-480
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Jack Wedge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2011
Place of death La Jolla , California