Edward H. Sussenguth Jr. (October 10, 1932 – November 22, 2015) was an American engineer and former IBM employee, known best for his work on Systems Network Architecture (SNA).
in electrical engineering in 1959 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),[2] and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1964 from Harvard.
[3] After he served at the United States Navy as an officer in the Pacific Fleet, Sussenguth joined IBM in 1959.
[5][6] In early 1963, Falkoff, later joined by Iverson and Sussenguth, proceeded to use the notation to produce a formal description of the IBM System/360 computer then under design.
He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and received multiple awards and honors, including: in 1981, an IBM Fellowship[10] for "technical leadership in the development of system network architecture";[3] in 1988, the Data Communications Interface Award;[4] in 1989, the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal; in 1992, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (computer science).