Thank you to the following supporters of ICASSP 2007
Irwin Mark Jacobs, Co-Founder and Chairman, QUALCOMM
Cellphones increasingly support multiple and ever-more powerful mobile wide-area, local-area, and personal-area packet-switched voice and data communications, plus broadcast and GPS, while retaining compatibility with the previous generation standards now used by 2.5 billion people. Yet, communications requires less than 25% of the area of the phone digital chip, allowing new functions to be added with minimal impact on cost, size, and energy usage. Computing power on chip is becoming comparable to that of last decade's supercomputer, supported by improving displays and optical lens capabilities. Software platforms support the download of applications and even of user interfaces. The talk will touch on how the cellphone is taking over many consumer and business functions as well as perhaps the next major application, mobile TV.
Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs is co-founder and chairman of the board
of directors of QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code
Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology. Dr. Jacobs served
as chief executive officer of the Company until July 2005. Dr. Jacobs has led
the commercialization of CDMA technology and its success as the world's
fastest-growing, most-advanced voice and data wireless communications
technology. He holds several CDMA patents, contributing to QUALCOMM's extensive
portfolio of issued U.S. and foreign patent and pending applications. Dr.
Jacobs previously served as co-founder, president, CEO and chairman of LINKABIT
Corporation, directing its growth from a few part-time employees in 1969 to
more than 1,400 employees in 1985 and first introduction of Ku-band Very Small
Aperture Earth Terminals (VSATs), commercial TDMA wireless phones, and the
VideoCipher® satellite-to-home TV system. LINKABIT merged with M/A-COM in
August 1980, at which time Dr. Jacobs served on the company's board of
directors until he resigned from M/A-COM in April 1985. More than 35 San Diego
telecommunications companies, including QUALCOMM, trace their roots back to
LINKABIT. From 1959 to 1966, Dr. Jacobs was an assistant/associate professor of
electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From
1966 to 1972 he served as a professor of computer science and engineering at
the University of California, San Diego. At MIT, Dr. Jacobs co-authored a basic
textbook on digital communications entitled, Principles of Communication
Engineering. First published in 1965, the book remains in use today. Dr. Jacobs
received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1956 from Cornell
University and master of science and doctor of science degrees in electrical
engineering from MIT in 1957 and 1959, respectively. Dr. Jacobs is a member of
numerous industry and community boards and committees. He is a Fellow of the
IEEE and a member of Sigma XI, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. Dr.
Jacobs also serves on the Council on Competitiveness, the National Academy of
Engineering Committee on Public Awareness of Engineering, the board of
directors of Building Engineering & Science Talent, the visiting committee
of the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, California Council
on Science and Technology, and is past chairman of the University of California
President's Engineering Advisory Council.