San Diego, California
Qualcomm is involved in communication–related, and with mobile phone–related in particular. Its signature technology is CDMA, which efficiently uses bandwidth technology.
Jacobs was Assistant and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT from 1959–1966, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego from 1966–1972. He has co–authored a highly regarded college textbook, entitled Principles of Communication Engineering in 1965.
Jacobs, Jewish, is a leading American billionaire (top 25) and philanthropist (over $500,000,000 lifetime).
His resume includes Cornell University (B.S. 1956), MIT (S.M. 1957), and MIT (Sc.D 1959). He gave the commencement address at MIT in 2005.
Hal Jacobs, the second of his four sons, played on the 1985 USA Maccabi volleyball team.