 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).Abramson was a research engineer at 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".