Jean Paul Jacob was a Brazilian
electronic engineer, researcher and professor.
He received his
electronic engineering degree from the
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, in
Brazil, and his
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degrees in
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and
Engineering from the
University of California, at
Berkeley, in 1966.
After working in France in industrial and academic research laboratories in Systems and Control, and then at the
IBM Nordic Laboratory, in
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, he migrated in 1963 to the United States where he was assigned to the
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IBM Research Laboratory in
California, now the
Almaden IBM Research Laboratory. He was then involved in developing high level simulations of a space laboratory for
NASA. After receiving his PhD at Berkeley, he resumed his academic career when he returned to Brazil in 1969, where he worked for the
University of São Paulo (USP), the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) and the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) where he created the Systems Department. Most of his publications were in mathematical journals, with some in Systems Theory. He was the co-author of a book on System and Control Theory published in Japan.
In 1980 he returned again to his native Brazil to create the first IBM Scientific Center of
South America, as well as an Institute for Software Engineering.
For many years he was the IBM research manager at the
IBM Almaden Research Center, in California, while also a visiting scholar at Stanford and Berkeley, having taken one year sabbaticals from IBM Research at Stanford and twice at Berkeley.
He retired from IBM in October 2002, but returned as a researcher Emeritus.
Jean Paul received over 50 awards during his career, two of which from UC Berkeley, the 1992 Distinguished Alumnus Award in Computer Science and Engineering and the
University of California Research Leadership Award in 2003. Dr. Jacob was an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology, whose membership consists of the top technical leaders from around the world who are working in research, hardware and software development, manufacturing, applications, and services. He was featured in over 200 articles published by the written media in 12 countries, as well as featured on at least 30 TV programs on science and technology, 2 of which on CNN.
Dr. Jacob was heavily involved in the creation of the
(CITRIS) at the University of California, as representative of the first Founding Member of CITRIS, namely
IBM, in 2000. He also organized yearly workshops in different areas, including nanotechnology, energy and services, between
UC Berkeley, CITRIS, and IBM. He was also an annual speaker for the Management of Technology (MOT) interdisciplinary program at UC Berkeley.
He was proud of having worked with and for many diversity groups at
UC Berkeley, both as a student and as a faculty.
Jean Paul Jacob died on April 7, 2019.
OBITUARY: JEAN PAUL JACOB, CITRIS SPECIAL ADVISOR, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute, University of California, Berkeley
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See also
* List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
References
External links
Jean Paul Jacobs. Informatics - The future is not what it used to be
Rodolfo Lucena, Entrevista: Jean Paul Jacob - "Para cientista, reconhecimento de voz avança, mas ainda é insuficiente"
Folha de S.Paulo, Março, 2008.
Sidney Lage Nogueira, "Jean Paul Jacob é o DESTAQUE ITEANO"
AEITA Online, Agosto, 2006.
, Revista VEJA, Ed. Especial, Novembro, 2005.
ITA, 2003.
Cora Rónai, Entrevista: "Jean Paul Jacob e suas idéias a respeito do futuro"
O Globo, Agosto 2000.
Elisa Andries, Entrevista: "Jean Paul Jacob fala do futuro da Internet"
Internet World, Junho, 1998.
Marcelo Min, Entrevista: Jean Paul Jacob - "A privacidade acabou"
Revista ISTOÉ, Junho, 1998.
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1937 births
2019 deaths
Brazilian computer scientists
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Brazilian engineers
People from Berkeley, California
IBM employees