Herman Hollerith
American statistician and inventor（1860-1929） · United States · Scientists · Died at 69
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Something wrong?He taught machines to count people. Hollerith's punched-card tabulator turned the 1890 U.S. census from a decade-long slog into a job finished in months, and the logic he patented became the scaffolding for a century of data processing.
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Born February 29, 1860, Hollerith was a German-American statistician who saw that holes in cardboard could encode information a machine could read. He patented his electromechanical tabulating system in 1884, inaugurating the age of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing. The company he founded merged with others in 1911 to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, renamed International Business Machines in 1924. His concept held dominion over data processing for nearly a century, and IBM became one of the largest companies of the twentieth. Hollerith died November 17, 1929, regarded as a seminal figure in making information legible to machines.
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