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Herman Hollerith
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Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) was an American inventor, businessperson, statistician, and mathematician. Born in Buffalo, he received his education at the City College of New York and held a degree in mining engineering. His professional career included positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the Computing Tabulating Recording Company. Hollerith worked in the field of computer science and was influenced by John Shaw Billings.
He was recognized with the Elliott Cresson Medal and is included in the National Inventors Hall of Fame collection. Hollerith died of a myocardial infarction in Washington, D.C., and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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- Given name
- Herman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Buffalo
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- engineer
- Academic degree
- mining engineer
- Field of work
- computer science
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- Herman Hollerith
- date of birth
- 1860-02-29
- date of death
- 1929-11-17
- place of burial
- Oak Hill Cemetery
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- Herman Hollerith
- influenced by
- John Shaw Billings
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011394
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- Herman Hollerith
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Encyclopedic overview
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.
Hollerith founded a company that was amalgamated in 1911 with several other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company . In 1924, the company was renamed "International Business Machines" (IBM) and became one of the largest and most successful companies of the 20th century. Hollerith is regarded as one of the seminal figures in the development of data processing.
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