Jack Wolf

Name: Jack Keil Wolf

Born: March 14, 1935, in Newark, New Jersey USA

Death: May 12, 2011 (Age: 76)

Computer-related contributions

• American researcher in information theory and coding theory.
• In 1984, he joined the University of California, San Diego, where he applied communication and information theory to magnetic storage.

Significant publications

• Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery (1999).
• Performance Limits in Communications Theory and Practice (1988).
• Communications and Networks (1986).

Honors and awards

• Marconi Prize from and Fellow of the Marconi Society (2011).
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2004).
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1993).
• IEEE Fellow (1973).