Irwin Jacobs is an American electrical engineer and businessman, born October 18, 1933, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who co-founded Qualcomm in 1985 and served as its chairman, pioneering the development of Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology for cellular telecommunications. He earlier co-founded Linkabit Corporation in 1968 with Andrew Viterbi, taught at MIT from 1959 to 1966 and at UC San Diego from 1966 to 1972, and co-authored the textbook Principles of Communication Engineering with John Wozencraft. Jacobs earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1956 and a master's and doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1957 and 1959. He stepped down as Qualcomm chairman in 2009 and chairs the board of trustees at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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