Awards & Winners

Erich Bloch

Erich Bloch 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 University 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."

Awards by Erich Bloch

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1985


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For their contributions to the development of the hardware, architecture and systems engineering associated with the IBM System/360, a computer system and technologies which revolutionized the data processing industry and which helped to make the United States dominant in computer technology for many years.)