American computer scientist (1935–2011)
Jack Keil Wolf (March 14, 1935 – May 12, 2011) was an American researcher ininformation theory andcoding theory .
Wolf was born in 1935 inNewark, New Jersey , and graduated fromWeequahic High School in 1952.[ 1] University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and his Ph.D. fromPrinceton University in 1960 for his thesis "On the Detection and Estimation Problem for Multiple Nonstationary Random Processes". He held faculty appointments atNew York University 1963–1965, thePolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1965–1973 and theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst 1973–1984, and worked atRCA Laboratories andBell Laboratories . In 1984, he joined theUniversity of California, San Diego , where he applied communication and information theory tomagnetic storage . He also held a part-time appointment atQualcomm since its formation in 1985. He was president of theIEEE Information Theory Society in 1974. He died on May 12, 2011.[ 2]
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