Biography: Arthur Lawrence Norberg (1938–2021)

Abstract

The history of the computing community lost one of its early leaders in September 2021 with the passing of Arthur Norberg [1]. He was born in 1938 into a working-class Irish family in Providence, RI. He attended on scholarship a private religious academy as a high school student, where he did well in the topics that interested him, in particular English literature and history. From age twelve, and for the rest of his life until his retirement, he worked—often working full time while he was in college and graduate school. During college, for example, he worked summers in his father's jewelry salvage business.