Author: Erich Christian
Born: 17 August 1919
Died: 28 April 2004
Bio: Dr Erich Christian was born August 17, 1919, in Vienna, Austria, the son of Karoline and Konrad Christian.
He studied at the Vienna Institute of Technology and graduated in 1950 as a Dipl. Eng.  He immigrated to the United States in 1953 and became a citizen in 1961. In 1973, he earned the degree of Dr.-Eng. from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany.  He has worked in various fields of communication at Siemens and served as an engineer and manager for the US Army, GE, and ITT. He pioneered the use of digital computers for networking design and taught network design for many years at NC State University.