Norman Abramson

Norman Manuel Abramson (April 1, 1932 – December 1, 2020) was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist, most known for developing the ALOHAnet system for wireless computer communication.

Early life Abramson was born on April 1, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts, to immigrant Jewish parents Edward and Esther. His father was born in Lithuania, and worked in commercial photography. His mother was born in Ukraine, and managed the house. pattern recognition and machine learning and computing for seismic analysis.

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: Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for "the invention of the first random-access communication protocol". 2000: Technology Award from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation. 2007: IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. 2011: C&C Prize.

Publications Information theory and coding (McGraw-Hill, 1963) Computer communication networks (Prentice-Hall, 1973). Editor with Franklin F. Kuo