Herman Hollerith

1860-1929
 

Hollerith was the inventor of the electric, punch card tabulating system for the 1890 US population census. This work evolved into the founding of IBM.

Columbia biography (2)
Mathematics biography (1)

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Selected Works of Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith, "Complete Specification: Improvements in the Methods of and Apparatus for Compiling Statistics," http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/Hollerith patent.pdf (Computer History Museum, accessed 2004 Sep 15). This is the original patent of the card tabulating machinery for the 1890 US census.

Herman Hollerith, "An Electric Tabulating System" in The Quarterly vol. 10, no. 16 (Columbia University School of Mines, 1889 Apr), 238-255. Also available online at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hh/index.html (Columbia University, accessed 2004 Sep 22). "[Hollerith] describes the devices and methods he developed to automate the 1890 US Census; it is the basis for his 1890 Columbia Ph.D." -- From the preface by Frank da Cruz.


1. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "Herman Hollerith," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13)

2. Frank da Cruz, "Herman Hollerith," http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hollerith.html (Academic Information Systems, Columbia University, 2004 Aug 4, accessed 2004 Sep 22)

Bibliography

Frank da Cruz, "Columbia University Computing History: A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University," http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/ (Academic Information Systems, Columbia University, accessed 2003 Oct 16)

Geoffrey D. Austrian. Herman Hollerith, Forgotten Giant of Information Processing (Columbia University Press, 1982).

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