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He served as CEO of Qualcomm until 2005 and as chairman of the board of directors until 2009. He has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology and the Marconi Prize. National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee Irwin Mark Jacobs invented CDMA technology, underlying all third generation cellular telephone networks.
Jacobs is one of MIT's most illustrious and successful graduates, whose leadership of the telecommunications industry, his advocacy of science and math education, and his philanthropy in education and the arts, are inspiring and in the best tradition of MIT. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, graduates, and graduates to be, Dr. Irwin ...
Irwin Mark Jacobs, 2011. Irwin Mark Jacobs, a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, survived a host of bad advice throughout his life. His high school guidance counselor dismissed his love of math and physics, declaring that there was “no future” in science nor engineering. Instead, he persuaded Jacobs to enroll in Cornell University’s ...
Irwin Jacobs Biography. Irwin Mark Jacobs is a board member of QUALCOMM Incorporated, 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. Qualcomm pioneered the development and commercialization of CDMA mobile wireless technology, now adopted for all third ...
Jan 31, 2014 · Irwin M. Jacobs prides himself on being one of the first US entrepreneurs to discover what Israel could do for multinationals. Some multinationals only became aware of the Start-Up Nation after ...
When Dr. Irwin Jacobs co-founded Qualcomm with a few fellow tech veterans in 1985, he thought, perhaps, the company could one day reach 100 employees. Now 35 years later, Qualcomm has 175 offices and more than 37,000 employees across the world.
Irwin M. Jacobs's 11 research works with 3,345 citations and 1,838 reads, including: On the capacity of a cellular CDMA system
