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salzburg , germany 225px electrical engineering ibm of engineering sciences member ieee fellow -lrb- 1952 - 1981 -rrb- royal swedish academy 9 january 1925 erich bloch
 erich bloch
erich bloch

`` for the economist see erich bloch -lrb- economist -rrb- '' erich bloch -lrb- born january 9 , 1925 -rrb- is a german-born american electrical engineer and administrator .
he served as director of national science foundation from 1984 to 1990 .
bloch studied electrical engineering at eth zurich and received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the state university of new york at buffalo .
bloch joined ibm in 1952 .
he was engineering manager of lbm 's stretch supercomputer system and director of several research sites during his career .
in 1984 bloch was elected a foreign member of the royal swedish academy of engineering sciences .
he joined the council on competitiveness as its first distinguished fellow in 1991 .
the national science board honored him in 2002 with the vannevar bush award .
in 2002 he was made a fellow of the computer history museum `` for engineering management of the ibm stretch supercomputer , and of the solid logic technology used in the ibm system/360 , which revolutionized the computer industry . ''
