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Irwin Mark Jacobs (born October 18, 1933) is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute. As of 2019, Jacobs has an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion.
Irwin Mark Jacobs (New Bedford, Massachusetts, 18 de outubro de 1933) é um engenheiro elétrico, co-fundador e ex-dirigente da Qualcomm, presidente do conselho de curadores do Jonas Salk Institute. [1]
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Irwin Mark Jacobs was born October 18, 1933 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He received the B.E.E. degree in 1956 from Cornell University, and the M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1957 and 1959, respectively.
Dr. Jacobs began his career in 1959 as an assistant and then associate professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and on staff at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. While at M.I.T., Dr. Jacobs, together with Prof. J. Wozencraft, authored Principles of Communication Engineering, developing a vision of ubiquitous communications worldwide made...
On July 1, 1985, Dr. Jacobs became a founder, and the Chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM Inc., leading the company into mobile satellite communications and digital wireless telephony on an international scope. QUALCOMM's OmniTRACS system is one of the world's most \"technologically advanced two-way mobile satellite communications and tracking systems. It...
Dr. Jacobs is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was named as an Eminent Member of Eta Kappa Nu in 2003. He received the U.S. National Medal of Technology in 1994, and has received a number of other awards, including: the 1992 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in High Technology by the Institute of American En...
Dr. Jacobs and his wife, Joan, reside in California. They have four sons and five grandchildren. His outside interests include the arts, reading, jogging, and family outings.
Dr. Jacobs won the 1995 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 'For outstanding contributions to telecommunications, including leadership, theory, practice and product development' and the 2007 IEEE/Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award \"For fundamental contributions, innovation, and leadership that enabled the growth of wir...
5 de mar. de 2019 · Irwin Jacobs. Cofounder, Qualcomm. $1.2B. 2019 Billionaires Net Worth. as of 3/5/19. Photo by Jin Lee/Bloomberg. From the Editor. Irwin Jacobs cofounded mobile chipmaker Qualcomm in 1985,...
Há 6 dias · Irwin Jacobs is founding chair and CEO emeritus of Qualcomm, a San Diego-based telecommunications company and chair emeritus of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute.
Man Behind a Billion Connections | Invention Story | Qualcomm. While at UCSD, Jacobs teamed up with a couple of University of California, Los Angeles professors to start Linkabit Corp, a consulting company. He later quit teaching to work there full-time, staying until his retirement in 1985.
8 de jul. de 2024 · Irwin Mark Jacobs is Founding Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm, a company he co-founded in 1985. As CEO through 2005 and Chairman through 2009, he led the growth from startup to Fortune 500 Company, now with over 22,000 employees worldwide.
