Jack Keil Wolf, an engineer and computer theorist whose mathematical reasoning about how best to transmit and store information helped shape the digital innards of computers and other devices that power modern society, died on May 12 at his home in the La Jolla section of San Diego. ^ 'Jack Wolf, Who Did the Math Behind Computers, Dies at 76'.'Jack Keil Wolf (1952) a nationally recognized computer theorist and engineer.' ^ Distinguished Weequahic Alumni, Weequahic High School Alumni Association.Marconi Prize from and Fellow of the Marconi Society (2011).Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005).

Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society (2001)

IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1998).

He was president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1974. He also held a part-time appointment at Qualcomm since its formation in 1985. In 1984, he joined the University of California, San Diego, where he applied communication and information theory to magnetic storage. He held faculty appointments at New York University 1963–1965, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 1965–1973 and the University of Massachusetts Amherst 1973–1984, and worked at RCA Laboratories and Bell Laboratories. from Princeton University in 1960 for his thesis 'On the Detection and Estimation Problem for Multiple Nonstationary Random Processes'. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and his Ph.D. Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Weequahic High School in 1952.

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