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Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting.
Herman Hollerith (29 Februari 1860 – 17 November 1929) ialah ahli statistik Amerika Syarikat yang mengembangkan penjadual mekanik berasaskan kad tebuk untuk menjadualkan statistik jutaan data dengan pantas.
Herman Hollerith (born February 29, 1860, Buffalo, New York, U.S.—died November 17, 1929, Washington, D.C.) was an American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer.
5 Sep 2023 · Herman Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation. He chose the punched card as the basis for storing and processing information and he built the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines as well as the first key punch, and he founded the company that was to become IBM.
9 Dis 2011 · Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine proved to be pivotal in the history of information technology. Wikipedia Commons In 1890, the U.S. Government had a problem.
During a short stint compiling manufacturing statistics for the US Census Office, Herman Hollerith grew frustrated with the organization’s manual process of counting questionnaires. The tedious, error-prone labor was creating an operational nightmare for an overtaxed agency.
Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) Inventor. School of Mines 1879, PhD 1890. Hollerith has been called the world's first statistical engineer and the father of modern information processing. He invented punched cards to record data and a tabulating machine and sorter to process the results electronically.
