On April 23, 2019, NYU WIRELESS Founder and Director Theodore (Ted) Rapport presented the Pioneers Award to Irwin Jacobs, a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm. Dr. Jacobs is known for his work at Qualcomm developing the OmniTRACS system. His pioneering work helped develop systems which use communication bandwidth more efficiently than the older fixed time-sliced TDMA technology.

Watch the full video recording of their conversation below: