Department of Applied MIT professor Irwin Jacobs John Muir College First four-year UCSD Irwin Jacobs hires Hannes Alfvén wins Hannes Alfvén appointed Then-professor Irwin Jacobs Sing H. Lee joins AP&IS Bill Coles awarded Electrophysics founded, turns down faculty position established as UCSD’s undergraduate class Linkabit’s first full-time Nobel Prize in Physics for visiting professor; receives returns from leave; gives up faculty in optoelectronics Guggenheim Fellowship following first engineering in Applied Electrophysics Second College; Applied receives degrees employee, alumnus Jerrold magnetohydrodynamics Franklin Medal from tenure to devote full time at and applied optics faculty arrival in 1964, with oered by Henry Booker Electrophysics is housed in Heller (PhD ‘69) on same research Franklin Institute, and Linkabit emphasis on applied (his former undergraduate Muir College B.A. degree created in day Neil Armstrong first set lomonosov Gold Medal from IEEE Information Theory physics and integration of professor at Cornell), but Information and Computer foot on moon, July 20, Carl Helstrom elected USSR Academy of Sciences Victor C. Anderson Society names Jack Wolf areas from physical two days later reconsiders Scripps oceanographer Science as well as MS and 1969 Fellow of the IEEE appointed Chair of AP&IS recipient of Best Paper sciences and engineering and begins teaching Fall Gustaf Arrhenius (grandson PhD programs AP&IS faculty size rises to award for publications in quarter of 1903 Nobel Prize in William A. Coles, first Henry Booker receives 26 members Andrew Viterbi elected prior two years Ionospheric radio scientist Chemistry winner Svante Department renamed UCSD alumnus (PhD ’69), 50th Anniversary Medal Fellow of IEEE Henry G. Booker appointed 13 professors in inaugural August Arrhenius) named Applied Physics and hired as professor and of the American Lea Rudee awarded Space scientist Ian Axford Chair of Applied faculty in Department of faculty-aliate in Applied Information Science co-director of the Solar Meteorological Society Guggenheim Fellowship leaves UCSD faculty after Electrophysics; Booker Applied Electrophysics Electrophysics, and remains (AP&IS); includes 17 faculty; Wind Project with Victor seven years to become previously elected Fellow of faculty-aliate in ECE today housed in Muir College; Rumsey. Barnaby Rickett Faculty in AP&IS grows to Carl Helstrom appointed director at Max Planck IEEE (1953) and member, Booker assembles a group Henry Booker is first chair joins Solar Wind Project as 19 AP&IS chair; leads Institute for Aeronomy National Academy of of ionospheric physicists Construction begins on of AP&IS researcher - he becomes Communication Theory and (today the Max Planck Sciences (1960) including Jules Fejer, Central University Library an AP&IS professor five Central University Library Systems Institute for Solar System Hannes Alfven, Ian Axford, (later named Geisel Library), Adolf Lohmann elected years later. opens (later renamed Research) First annual watermelon Kenneth Bowles and Peter for occupancy August 1, Fellow of Optical Society of Geisel Library in 1995) Adolf Lohmann founds drop by freshman class and Banks who, together, 1969 America Irwin Jacobs hosts Optical Signal Processing Carl Helstrom appointed Associated Students accounted for 90% of “most week-long visit by father of Linkabit moves from Los area that later becomes Chair of AP&IS influential” papers on the Kenneth Bowles appointed Linkabit incorporated by information theory and Angeles to Sorrento Photonics and Applied Kenneth Bowles elected ionosphere (Source: Director of Computer Irwin Jacobs, Andrew mathematician Claude Valley Optics Kenneth Bowles begins Fellow of IEEE Wesleyan University) Center Viterbi and Leonard Shannon, named as development of UCSD Kleinrock Honorary Fellow of Muir Harvard PhD student Victor Anderson Pascal as a computing Adolf Lohmann joins as College Martha Dennis works in lab environment for PCs to Senior Lecturer and then of Irwin Jacobs while teach programming, becomes professor in 1968 finishing dissertation on derived from Niklaus Wirth’s computer graphics; later Pascal language (published NSF funds 20-year Solar becomes senior engineer at four years earlier) Wind Project proposed by Linkabit Booker and Bowles; builds and deploys three large Irwin Jacobs takes one-year phased-array antennas to leave of absence during measure speed of solar 1971-’72 to focus on Linkabit wind using “interplanetary organization scintillation” remote probing from Earth. Project Graduate programs in gave first 3D view of solar electronics, computer wind structure over an science, information and entire solar cycle communication theory (transferred to direction of taught by Kenneth Bowles, Victor Rumsey and Bill Ray Fitzgerald, Carl Coles in 1969.) Helstrom, Irwin Jacobs, Adolf Lohmann, Elias Masry, Pieter Schalkwijk Early days of UCSD—Ceremony Henry G. Booker TOP ROW LR: R. Moore, J. Schalkwijk, G. Lewak, I. Jacobs, H. Chivers, S. Irwin Jacobs Carl Helstrom Bill Coles marking the construction of the Duntley, J. Doupnik; CENTER ROW: G. Arrhenius, H-L Luo, A. Lohmann, first building of the main I. Axford, V. Rumsey, T. Yeh; BOTTOM ROW: C. Helstrom, E. Masry, P. Banks, campus. Among those in the H. Booker, M. Rotenberg, J. Fejer picture are the newly appointed chancellor, Herbert York (second from left), president of University of California, Clark Kerr (at the podium), California Governor Pat Brown (fourth from the left) and Roger Revelle (fifth from the Left). (Courtesy—An Improbable Venture, 1993.) Jules Fejer retires from Fourth College renamed Andrew Viterbi elected to William S.C. Chang joins AP&IS renamed EECS establishes Irwin Mark Harry Wieder elected American Sing H. Lee elected Fellow John Proakis elected Fellow Jack Wolf named inaugural AP&IS Earl Warren College National Academy of AP&IS faculty one year after Department of Electrical and Joan Klein Jacobs Chair Physical Society Fellow of Optical Society of America of IEEE CMRR Endowed Chair Engineering being elected IEEE Fellow; Engineering and in Information and Peter Banks leaves AP&IS Victor Rumsey appointed becomes founder of Computer Sciences Computer Sciences SS Lau establishes the ion Harry Wieder receives the Larry Milstein elected faculty after 10 years to lead Chair of AP&IS Kenneth Bowles’ Institute Electronic Devices and (EECS) beam technology lab at Medrad W. Welch Award Henry Booker receives IEEE Fellow of IEEE physics department at Utah for Information Systems Materials group. He Emeritus professor Jules UCSD under the sponsorship from the American Vacuum Centennial Award State University; moves to releases UCSD Pascal establishes the ECE 136L Victor Rumsey appointed Fejer awarded John Howard of DARPA Society Harry Wieder establishes Stanford in 1983 programming language and processing lab for teaching EECS founding chair; Dellinger Gold Medal from Larry Milstein appointed the solid-source Gallium p-System operating system, purposes, which turns into Rumsey also elected to the International Radio Division of Engineering created Center for Magnetic EECS chair Arsenide Molecular Beam one of three oered for the ITL, Integrated Technology National Academy of Union under Dean Lea Rudee Recording Research (CMRR) Epitaxy (MBE) system at IBM PC Lab in 1991 by a group of Engineering established with 10 Adolf Lohmann receives the EECS Professor of applied physics Undergraduate electrical EDM faculty and UCSD alumnus Victor C. engineering program founding industry members OSA Max Born Award Henry Booker elected Linkabit acquired by Anderson (PhD ’53) accredited by Accreditation Irwin Jacobs resigns from honorary President of Henry Booker honored by M/A-COM for $25 million appointed EECS chair; later Board for Engineering and Engineering students M/A-COM Linkabit on April International Union of Radio students and colleagues becomes longtime research Technology (ABET) launch annual Robotics Lab 1; on July 1, Qualcomm Science with establishment of oceanographer at Scripps competition launched, including fellowship in his name at Institution of Oceanography part-time faculty National Academy of Design for Engineering consultants Jack Wolf and Sciences Building Unit 1 approved by Henry Booker UC Regents Jack Wolf awarded CONNECT launched by Guggenheim Fellowship Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson to be "university-based provider of accelerated support services for high-technology business and university entrepreneurs" Andrew Viterbi William S. C. Chang Central University Library (circa 1970) Kenneth Bowles Jack Wolf Victor Rumsey Origin of ECE Department Qualcomm Founders Victor Anderson receives Engineering Building Unit 1 Emeritus professor Hannes Victor Anderson retires from Emeritus professor Jules Andrew Viterbi honored Paul Siegel awarded Best Harry Wieder elected Irwin Jacobs originates Center for Wireless the Admiral Charles B. completed as largest Alfvén awarded William University of California's Fejer elected Fellow of with Claude Shannon Paper in previous two years Fellow of IEEE letter inviting participation Communications (CWC) Martell Technical Excellence building on UCSD campus Bowie Medal of American Marine Physical Laboratory American Geophysical Award by IEEE by IEEE Information Theory in new wireless center at established with support Award to date (240,000sf), later Geophysical Union for work (MPL) at Scripps Institute of Union Information Theory Society William S.C. Chang UCSD (eventually the from wireless named Jacobs Hall on comets and plasmas