- This article is about the computer scientist and electrical engineer. For the aerospace engineer and scientist, see H. Norman Abramson
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| Residence |  United States |
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| Fields | Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences |
| Institutions | University of Hawaii |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Notable awards | IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal |
Norman Abramson (April 1, 1932)[1] is an American engineer and computer scientist, most known for developing the ALOHAnet system for wireless computer communication.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received an A.B. in physics from Harvard University (1953), an M.A. in Physics from UCLA (1955), and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (1958).
He worked as a research engineer in the Hughes Aircraft Company until 1955, when he joined the faculty at Stanford University (1955–65), was visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley (1966), before moving to University of Hawaii (1968–94), serving as professor of both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of Aloha Systems. He is currently the Vice President of Aloha Networks, established in San Francisco (1994).
His early research concerned radar signal characteristics and sampling theory, as well as frequency modulation and digital communication channels, error correcting codes,[2] pattern recognition and machine learning and computing for seismic analysis. In the late 1960s he worked on the ALOHAnet and continued to develop spread spectrum techniques in the 1980s.
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Awards
- 1972 IEEE Sixth Region Achievement Award for contributions to Information Theory and Coding.
- 1980 IEEE Fellow Award for development of the ALOHA-System..
- 1992 Pacific Telecommunications Council 20th Anniversary Award for leadership in the PTC.
- 1995 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for development of the ALOHA System.
- 1998 IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Award for the invention of the first random access protocol.
- 2000 Eduard Rhein Technology Award from Aachen University
- 2007 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Publications
- Information theory and coding (McGraw-Hill, 1963)
- Computer communication networks (Prentice-Hall, 1973). Editor with Franklin F. Kuo
References
- ^ biography from IEEE (1964)
- ^ U.S. Patent 3,114,130 and U.S. Patent 3,163,848.
External links
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| Preceded by John Wozencraft |
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 2007 |
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