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Herman Hollerith (1860-1929), Columbia University School of Mines EM 1879, Columbia University PhD 1890. Photo: IBM. 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 ...
May 7, 2012 · Hollerith retired in 1921 to his farm in rural Maryland, where he spent the rest of his life raising Guernsey cattle. According to an article in IBM’s employee publication, “Think,” Hollerith said he spent that time “fully occupied with boats, bulls, and butter.”. Four years later, the name of the company was changed to International ...
Oct 29, 2018 · Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) One of the most famous statisticians, particularly in the history of computer development, is Herman Hollerith, the inventor of a “punch-card tabulation machine” that revolutionized the speed with which reams of data could be processed. Hollerith was a key player in the computer revolution of the 20th century.
Hollerith’s punched card tabulator, developed in the 1880s, eased the administrative burden of hand-counting the population in a country whose numbers were exploding. Its success in the 1890 census led countries around the world, including Austria, Canada, Cuba, France, Norway, the Philippines and Russia, to procure Hollerith’s tabulator ...
Herman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith ( Buffalo, Nueva York, 29 de febrero de 1860- Washington D. C., 17 de noviembre de 1929) fue un inventor que desarrolló un tabulador electromagnético de tarjetas perforadas para ayudar en el resumen de la información y, más tarde, la contabilidad. Fue el fundador de la compañía de máquinas de ...
Herman Hollerith ( 29. veljače, 1860. – 17. studenog, 1929. ), američki statističar, izumitelj električnog tabulirajućeg stroja, prvog stroja koji je radio na bušene kartice. Stroj se koristio za ubrzanje postupka brojanja glasova u SAD-u. Brojanje glasova je na ovaj način bilo 3 puta brže od ručnog prebrojavanja.
Lucia Beverley Talcott (1865–1944) (k. 1890–1929) Herman Hollerith ( 29 Februari 1860 – 17 November 1929) ialah ahli statistik Amerika Syarikat yang mengembangkan penjadual mekanik berasaskan kad tebuk untuk menjadualkan statistik jutaan data dengan pantas. Rekaannya telah digunakan untuk membanci penduduk Amerika Syarikat pada tahun 1887 .
