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IWIN Invited Speach
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16:00- 17:00, September 15, 2009
"History of the AlohaNet - ALOHA to the Web"
Speaker:
Norman Abramson, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii
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Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford
University, 1958-1965. Visiting Professor, Berkeley, Harvard and MIT (1965, 1966,
1980). Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Information and Computer
Science, First Chairman, Department of Information and Computer Science, University
of Hawaii (1966-1995). Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii (2005 - ).
Founder, first CEO and Chief Technology Officer, ALOHA Networks, Inc., San
Francisco (1995-2001). Founder, first CEO and Chief Technical Officer, SkyWare, Inc.
San Francisco (2002-2006).
Director of the ALOHA System at the University of Hawaii. Developed and operated the
ALOHANet, which has been called the first modern data network. The ALOHA System
utilized UHF to provide a terrestrial data network (ALOHANet) within the state of Hawaii
in 1971. In 1973 the ALOHA System used VHF and an experimental NASA satellite
(ATS-1) to establish an international satellite data network (PacNet) connecting NASA in
California and five universities in the USA, Japan and Australia. Also in 1973, the
ALOHA System pioneered the unconventional use of a conventional Comsat channel to
link these two early networks to ARPANet in the continental US.
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