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To: limtex who wrote (13422)	8/6/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

QCOM investors, Kudos to Irwin: Thursday August 6, 1:14 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Coveted AEA Medal of Achievement to be Awarded to QUALCOMM Chairman and CEO Dr. Irwin Jacobs Presentation at AEA's Annual Dinner on Sept. 17 SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 1998--The American Electronics Association said today that Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM - news), has been named to receive the AEA 1998 Medal of Achievement. He joins a select group of high tech leaders who have received the honor, including Gordon Moore and Andrew Grove of Intel, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. of IBM, Ross Perot of Electronic Data Systems, and William Hewlett and David Packard of Hewlett-Packard. Dr. Jacobs will be the 45th recipient of the coveted award which will be made at the association's annual dinner to be held on Sept. 17 at the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Calif. William T. Archey, AEA President and CEO said, ''Dr. Irwin Jacobs truly exemplifies what AEA's Medal of Achievement is all about. As an entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of wireless technology he co-founded QUALCOMM, a $3 billion telecommunications company and a leader in developing advanced communications systems. He is generally considered to be the primary catalyst in shaping the wireless technology industry and has long been recognized as a philanthropist and community leader. ''It is AEA's great privilege to honor not only Dr. Jacobs' contributions to the U.S. high tech industry, but to acknowledge his leadership in academia and the community as well,'' Archey added. Recipients of AEA's Medal of Achievement are selected for overall accomplishments rather than for specific inventions or contributions. Service to the community, the industry and mankind in general are considered. In 1968, Dr. Jacobs and Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, QUALCOMM's vice chairman, founded Linkabit, a company that developed communications equipment for the military. They grew the firm from a few part-time employees to more than 1,400 in 1985. Today, more than 30 companies can trace their roots to Linkabit. In 1985, Dr. Jacobs co-founded QUALCOMM and became its chairman and CEO. The company is recognized as a leader in digital wireless communications with over 500 patents (issued or pending) and more than 10,000 employees throughout the world. He was instrumental in developing code division multiple access (CDMA) technology, now an international standard that serves as the basis for a new generation of digital wireless services, including cellular systems, personal communications services (PCS) and wireless local loop systems. From 1959 to 1966, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1966 to 1972 he was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He co-authored ''Principles of Communication Engineering,'' the first comprehensive textbook on digital communications. In 1994, Dr. Jacobs received the National Medal of Technology Award, the highest Presidential award for achievements in technology commercialization. He received the 1995 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and in 1966 he received the Albert Einstein Award by the American Society of Technion. He serves or has served on the Boards of the UCSD Foundation Board of Trustees, University of California President's Engineering Advisory Council, Council on Competitiveness, Inter-American Summitry Leadership Council, Pacific Council on International Policy, the San Diego Symphony and the San Diego Repertory Theater. Dr. Jacobs received a B.E.E. degree in 1956 from Cornell University and M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957 and 1959, respectively. The American Electronics Association is the largest high-tech trade group in the United States, representing more than 3,000 U.S.-based technology companies. Membership spans the industry from telecommunications and computer firms to software and semiconductor companies. For more than 50 years, AEA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. electronics community. -------- Ibexx