"For
his contribution to and leadership in the development and
growth of the Wireless Communications Industry.”
Irwin M. Jacobs
 Dr.
Irwin Jacobs founded QUALCOMM Incorporated in 1985, serving
as chairman and CEO. Dr. Jacobs has led QUALCOMM through a
period of rapid growth to over 9,000 employees, with international
activities in digital wireless telephony and mobile satellite
communications and Internet software. QUALCOMM is a 1999 FORTUNE
500 company with fiscal year 1998 revenues in excess of $3.3
billion.
Previously,
Dr. Jacobs founded LINKABIT, which merged with M/A-COM in
August 1980.
From 1959
to 1966, Dr. Jacobs was an Assistant/Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and from 1966 to 1972 he was a Professor of Computer Science
and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD).
Dr. Jacobs
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 in 1957 and 1959,
respectively.
Dr. Jacobs
was recently awarded the Ernst & Young Information Technology
Award for Global Integration by the Computerworld Smithsonian
Award Program for outstanding contributions to global integration
through the use of information technology. In 1994 Dr. Jacobs
received the National Medal of Technology Award, which is
the highest award bestowed by the President of the United
States for extraordinary achievements in the commercialization
of technology or the development of human resources that foster
technology commercialization.
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