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Search every verified Paul Jacobs interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In 2013, Paul Jacobs, then CEO and chairman of Qualcomm, gave two public lectures. At the Computer History Museum in August, he discussed Qualcomm's role as a "Switzerland" in the mobile industry, supporting multiple operating systems, and described the company's work on "digital brains" that function like a human brain and can be taught rather than programmed. He advised the audience to take risks and not settle for a comfortable life, emphasizing the importance of pushing oneself to change the world. In an October Regents' Lecture at UC Berkeley, Jacobs spoke about applying mobile technology to disrupt healthcare, noting that healthcare is a $6.5 trillion business compared to mobile's $1.5 trillion. He argued that connectivity could increase productivity and lower costs, particularly in developing countries facing an aging population with a shortage of doctors. He described Qualcomm's efforts to build a hub system for medical devices to communicate and share data in a HIPAA-compliant manner, and mentioned the company's "1,000X Challenge" to radically reduce the cost of generating wireless bits and expand connectivity to remote areas.
“Look, I run a business, so mobile is about a 1.5 trillion dollar business. Healthcare's a 6.5 trillion dollar business. So, you know it shouldn't cost that much for one thing, there's not enough of it. You know many people in developing countries, we're having what's called the age wave, so people are aging and the doc...”
“Nope, it's our responsibility to drive the costs down in the devices and to build networks and various systems that'll allow us to get connectivity to the most remote places that we can possibly get it to. So we're working on all sorts of technologies to do that. We're working on things to make the use of the technolog...”
The Regents' Lecture program brings to the University distinguished speakers who have pursued careers in arts, letter, sciences, or business substantially outside the academic profession. Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, CEO and chairman of Qualcomm Incorporated, chairman of the Engineering Advisory Board, and holder of three degrees from EECS, delivers a Regents' Lecture on the "Digital Sixth Sense," for fall 2013.
[Recorded: August 8, 2013] Dr. Paul E. Jacobs is chairman of Qualcomm's board of directors and the Company's chief executive ...
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