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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal “For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of information transmission and storage.”
  • 2001 - IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award "For fundamental contributions to multiuser communications and applications of coding theory to magnetic data storage devices."
  • 1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jack K. Wolf was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research output included multiple recent papers published in 2024, focusing on topics relevant to aging, healthcare quality, and aging services.

Recent papers included:

  • "Table of Contents," 2024, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • "DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMER-REPORTED QUALITY INDICATORS FOR PUBLICLY-FUNDED HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES," 2024, Innovation in Aging

The frequent coauthors who contributed to their research were:

  • Benjamin Langworthy
  • Romil R Parikh
  • Eric Jutkowitz
  • Tetyana Shippee
  • Laura Van den Bulcke

The main venues where their research was published included:

  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • Innovation in Aging

Jack K. Wolf received several distinctions during their career. These awards were:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
  • IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2004) - For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of information transmission and storage
  • IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award (2001)
  • IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (1998) - For fundamental contributions to multiuser communications and applications of coding theory to magnetic data storage devices
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1998)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1979)

Best Publications

  • Noiseless coding of correlated information sources

    D. Slepian;J. Wolf

  • Efficient maximum likelihood decoding of linear block codes using a trellis

    J. Wolf

  • Characterizing flash memory: anomalies, observations, and applications

    Laura M. Grupp;Adrian M. Caulfield;Joel Coburn;Steven Swanson

  • On linear unequal error protection codes

    B. Masnick;J. Wolf

  • On Tail Biting Convolutional Codes

    H. Ma;J. Wolf

  • A pragmatic approach to trellis-coded modulation

    A.J. Viterbi;J.K. Wolf;E. Zehavi;R. Padovani

  • Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving

    Wolf Jack K

  • Born again group testing: Multiaccess communications

    J. Wolf

  • Finite-state modulation codes for data storage

    B.H. Marcus;P.H. Siegel;J.K. Wolf

  • Transmission of noisy information to a noisy receiver with minimum distortion

    J. Wolf;J. Ziv

  • Codes for digital recorders

    K.E. Schouhamer Immink;P.H. Siegel;J.K. Wolf

  • Source coding for multiple descriptions

    J. K. Wolf;A. D. Wyner;J. Ziv

  • Optimal scheduling policies for a class of Queues with customer deadlines to the beginning of service

    Shivendra S. Panwar;Don Towsley;Jack K. Wolf

  • Windowed Decoding of Protograph-Based LDPC Convolutional Codes Over Erasure Channels

    A. R. Iyengar;M. Papaleo;P. H. Siegel;J. K. Wolf

  • Redundancy, the Discrete Fourier Transform, and Impulse Noise Cancellation

    J. Wolf

  • On the performance evaluation of trellis codes

    E. Zehavi;J. Wolf

  • Trellis Coding for Partial-Response Channels

    J. Wolf;G. Ungerboeck

  • Transmisor y metodo para comunicar flujo de datos digitales utilizando un sistema de transmision de multiplexion ortogonal de division de frecuencia (ofdm) (divisional de la solicitud 1398-98).

    Vijayan Rajiv;Zehavi Ephraim;Odenwalder Joseph;Lee Chong U

  • Modulation and coding for information storage

    P.H. Siegel;J.K. Wolf

  • On the Statistical Analysis of Queue Lengths and Waiting Times for Statistical Multiplexers with ARQ Retransmission Schemes

    D. Towsley;J. Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul H. Siegel
Paul H. Siegel University of California, San Diego
Ephraim Zehavi
Ephraim Zehavi Bar-Ilan University
Eitan Yaakobi
Eitan Yaakobi Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Alexander Vardy
Alexander Vardy University of California, San Diego
L.B. Milstein
L.B. Milstein University of California, San Diego
Yongbin Wei
Yongbin Wei Qualcomm (United States)
Edward G. Tiedemann
Edward G. Tiedemann Qualcomm (United States)
Roberto Padovani
Roberto Padovani Qualcomm (United States)
Andrew J. Viterbi
Andrew J. Viterbi Qualcomm (United States)
Jacob Ziv
Jacob Ziv Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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