Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith 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.
- Origin
- Born 1860 in Buffalo, United States ยท Died 1929
- Associated with
- Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Census Bureau, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Tabulating Machine Co.
- Studied at
- City College of New York, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
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