Skip to main content

Wireless Pioneer Gives Distinguished Lecture

One of the most impressive and important people in the history of wireless communications, Dr. Irwin Jacobs, lectured on the future of wireless devices and applications. Dr. Jacobs co-wrote a seminal textbook on wireless communication back in the late 1960's (Wozencraft & Jacobs, still in use today) when an MIT professor, before founding Link-a-bit (the grandfather company of the San Diego telecommunications industry) and then co-founding Qualcomm with Andrew Viterbi. He was their CEO for the first two decades of their existence (until 2 years ago).