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    Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical...
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    Punched card (redirect from Hollerith card)
    and the Melotrope which played the music. At the end of the 1800s Herman Hollerith created a method for recording data on a medium that could then be...
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  • Herman "Holly" Hollerith IV (born 1955) was the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, serving from 2009 until 2018. Hollerith was...
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    assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census...
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    1935 IBM renamed the magazine Think. Herman Hollerith initially did business under his own name, as The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System, specializing...
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  • Hollerith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman...
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  • Hollerith constants, named in honor of Herman Hollerith, were used in early FORTRAN programs to allow manipulation of character data. Early FORTRAN had...
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    to the German-American inventor of the technology of punched cards, Herman Hollerith. In April 1949 the company name was changed to IBM Deutschland. The...
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  • that done by computer. Herman Hollerith then at the U.S. Census Bureau devised a tabulating system that included cards (Hollerith card, later Punched card)...
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  • carried out by Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. In the 1880s, Herman Hollerith invented the concept of storing data in machine-readable form. Later...
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    article largely reflects IBM practice and terminology. In the 1880s Herman Hollerith was the first to record data on a medium that could then be read by...
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    the census was mechanized in 1890, with tabulating machines made by Herman Hollerith. This reduced the processing time to two and a half years. For the...
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    In science and technology, Columbia alumni include: founder of IBM Herman Hollerith; inventor of FM radio Edwin Armstrong; Francis Mechner; integral in...
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    computing scale in 1885; Alexander Dey invented the dial recorder (1888); Herman Hollerith patented the Electric Tabulating Machine (1889); and Willard Bundy...
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    traffic management, and concentration camp capacity. In the early 1880s, Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), a young employee at the U.S. Census Bureau, conceived...
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    Thomas Hardy Ruggero Leoncavallo Ferdinand Foch Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Herman Hollerith Julius Pringles Mr. Monopoly Mr. Boh Air India's Maharaja mascot Terrible...
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    was the first to use the electric tabulating machines invented by Herman Hollerith. For 1890–1940 details, see Truesdell, Leon E. (1965). The Development...
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    then be printed or used online for improved search capabilities. Herman Hollerith's work for the US Census Bureau first exercised in the 1890 United States...
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    Church. Hollerith had served as rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia, from 2000 to 2016. His brother is Herman Hollerith IV, a retired...
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    Adolf Cluss Lorenzo Dow Peggy Eaton Katherine Graham Joseph Henry Herman Hollerith Willie Lincoln (formerly interred) Francis G. Newlands Edwin P. Parker...
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    com. Retrieved 2017-09-05. Columbia University Computing History - Herman Hollerith Report of the Commissioner of Labor In Charge of The Eleventh Census...
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  • or the mail. Radix sort dates back as far as 1887 to the work of Herman Hollerith on tabulating machines. Radix sorting algorithms came into common use...
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  • Jacquard (1804), and later adopted by Semyon Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Herman Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM. A variant of that idea...
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  • manufacturer of time clocks. Tabulating Machine Company: Initiated by Herman Hollerith, who began building punch card-based data processing machines as early...
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    store programs in his Analytical Engine. In the late 19th century, Herman Hollerith took the idea of using punched cards to store information a step further...
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    The concept of automated data processing had been born. In 1890, Herman Hollerith invented the mechanical tabulating machine, a design used during the...
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    electric accounting machines (EAM) or tabulating machines. By 1887, Herman Hollerith had worked out the basis for a mechanical system of recording, compiling...
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  • George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (d. 1912) 1860 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman, co-founder of the...
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    1890 census was the first to be compiled using methods invented by Herman Hollerith and was overseen by Superintendents Robert P. Porter (1889–1893) and...
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  • paper to represent the music. Binary punched card In the late 1880s Herman Hollerith invented the recording of data on a medium that could then be read...
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