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Herman Hollerith
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Herman Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation. He chose the punched card as the basis for storing and processing information and he built the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines as well as the first key punch, Hollerith, Herman, "An Electric Tabulating System",
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Herman Hollerith invented and used a punched card device to help analyse the 1880 US census data.In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to sell his invention - the Company became part of IBM in 1924. Modern data processing began with the inventions of American engineer, Herman Hollerith.
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Fascinating facts about Herman Hollerith inventor of an early computer, the punch card machine in 1890. Herman Hollerith, American inventor, born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Columbia University, who devised a system of encoding data on cards through a series of punched holes.
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During the 1880s, the American inventor Herman Hollerith had the idea of using Jacquard's punched cards to represent the data from the American census, and to then read and collate this data using an automatic machine. 1890 AD Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machines...
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Herman Hollerith was born in Buffalo, N.Y., of German immigrant parents, on February 29, 1860. The following is the text of "Herman Hollerith: Data Processing Pioneer," an article by William R. Aul, published on pp. 22-24 of the November 1972 edition of Think, IBM's employee publication.
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http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_hollerith.html,IBM The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html...
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A step toward automated computation was the introduction of punched cards, which were first successfully used in connection with computing in 1890 by Herman Hollerith working for the U.S. Census Bureau. Computers: From the Past to the Present Herman Hollerith: Last modified July 30, 2006 ©1994-2006 by Michelle A. Hoyle...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on herman hollerith:American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer. For a definition of "herman hollerith", visit Merriam-Webster.
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Herman Hollerith's parents were immigrants to the United States from Germany in 1848 after political disturbances in that country.
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