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Herman Hollerith (Buffalo, 29 de fevereiro de 1860 — Washington, D.C., 17 de novembro de 1929) foi um empresário norte-americano e o principal impulsionador do leitor de cartões perfurados, principal forma de entrada de informação nos computadores da época. [2]
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.
The punched card tabulator | IBM. 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.
Em 29 de fevereiro de 1860, nasceu nos Estados Unidos o estatístico Herman Hollerith, inventor de uma máquina de contar considerada precursora do moderno sistema de processamento de dados.
Herman Hollerith (1860-1929), Columbia University School of Mines EM 1879, Columbia University PhD 1890. Photo: IBM. 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 ...
Herman Hollerith, American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer. Hollerith’s machine recorded statistics by electrically reading and sorting punched cards that had been numerically encoded by perforation position.
The third contestant, a former Census Bureau employee named Herman Hollerith, completed the data capture process in 72.5 hours. Next, the contestants had to prove that their designs could prepare data for tabulation (i.e., by age category, race, gender, etc.). Two contestants required 44.5 hours and 55.5 hours.
