Dr. Normam Abramson
诺曼·阿布拉门逊博士
Wireless Technology

Dr. Abramson is a principal contributor to Pacific Enterprise Capital’s wireless activities in China. The company is currently engaged in developing satellite and wireless local loop (WLL) businesses and expects a large share of total investment will be allocated to opportunities across the wireless industry in China.

Dr. Abramson is widely acknowledged as an Internet pioneer for his early, groundbreaking research and development of wireless packet data networks (see Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon, Touchstone Books, 1989; and Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, Stephen Segaller, TV Books, Inc., 1998, three hour Public Broadcasting System presentation, 1999). In the Internet’s formative years Dr. Abramson developed ALOHANET, the first wireless network that demonstrated the value of packet radio access in a data network. Among ALOHANET’s early innovations that are standard to today’s wireless Internet access were development of the first packet radio sensors and repeaters, the first packet satellite network (between the University of Hawaii and Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan) and the first radio access to the Internet. Today, ALOHA channels form the basis of CSMA/CD protocols used in Ethernet and 802.11 (WiFi) networking standards. ALOHA channels are used as control channels in all major digital cellular standards including GSM and CDMA. More than 90% of the nearly one million two-way satellite VSATs in operation around the world use some variation of the ALOHA protocol. Subsequently, Dr. Abramson founded Aloha Networks to commercialize his development of spread spectrum ALOHA (SAMA). He held the positions of CEO and CTO.

Dr. Abramson was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, 1958 – 1965; visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965, 1966 and 1980 respectively. He was professor of electrical engineering and first chairman of the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of Hawaii, 1966 – 1995. Dr. Abramson is founder of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, a founder of the Pacific Telecommunications Conference and the Pacific Telecommunications Council. He received an A.B. in physics from Harvard University, an M.A. in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Advisory Board:
Dr. Norman Abramson, Wireless Technology
Michael Hope, Enterprise Management
Oscar (Oz) Pieper, Security Solutions
Dr. Robert White, Data Storage Systems