Jack Keil Wolf

Professor Wolf was an early proponent of applying information and communications theory to construction of ultra high density information storage. He leads the Signal Processing Group within UCSD's Center for Magnetic Recording Research (dubbed the "WolfPack") which is in the forefront of the design of signal processing systems for the storage of digital data, particularly high-density magnetic recording systems.. .Wolf is a co-principal investigator on an NSF Information Technology Research grant awarded in August 2002, to address analytic and numerical methods for determining the information-theoretic limits on achievable storage densities and data transfer rates in recording channels. The research will consider both one-dimensional (disks, tapes) and higher-dimensional (holographic, thermomechanical) recording.

Jack Keil Wolf is the Stephen O. Rice Professor of Magnetics. He joined the UCSD faculty in 1984. Wolf received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and the Ph.D. degree in 1960 from Princeton University. He taught at New York University, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst before coming to UCSD. A member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE, Wolf was the first chaired professor hired at UCSD's Center for Magnetic Recording Research. In the private sector, Wolf has consulted for many companies including Bell Laboratories, and QUALCOMM, Incorporated. He was the recipient of the IEEE's Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communication Award in 1998, and the Information Theory Society's Shannon Award in 2001.