Abramson died on December 1, 2020 in his San Francisco home due to complications from skin cancer that had metastasized to his lungs. 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 References External links Engineering and Technology History Wiki Biography from IEEE Oral history interview with Severo Ornstein, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Ornstein discusses the computing contributions of Wesley Clark and Norman Abramson. Author profile in the database zbMATH 1932 births 2020 deaths American electrical engineers American information theorists Jewish American scientists Harvard College alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Hawaiʻi faculty Stanford University School of Engineering alumni Writers from Boston Fellow Members of the IEEE Mathematicians from Massachusetts American chief technology officers Deaths from skin cancer Deaths from cancer in California