Herman Hollerith

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1860 – 1929

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Who was Herman Hollerith?

Herman Hollerith was an American statistician and inventor who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the Tabulating Machine Company that later merged to become IBM. Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern machine data processing. With his invention of the punched card evaluating machine the beginning of the era of automatic data processing systems was marked. His draft of this concept dominated the computing landscape for nearly a century.

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Born
Feb 29, 1860
Buffalo
Also known as
  • 赫爾曼·何樂禮
  • Холлерит, Герман
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
  • City College of New York
  • Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lived in
  • Buffalo
Died
Nov 17, 1929
Washington, D.C.
Resting place
Oak Hill Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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