The first automatic data processing system. Developed by Herman Hollerith, a Census Bureau statistician, the machine was first used to count the U.S. census of 1890. It was so successful that ...

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A resolution to this problem was presented by Herman Hollerith. He developed a machine that could read data from paper cards. Census personnel entered the data by punching out the holes on the cards.

Through Thursday’s close it was up just 0.8% for the week, while other big-bank rivals from Bank of America (BAC) to Morgan ...

Cumming] might not be the first person to thumb through an old book and find an IBM punched card inside. But he might be the ...

The inventor of punched cards, which led to the first computers and companies like IBM, was aiming to solve a gnarly problem at the time: data collection for the census.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose nearly 350 points, or about 0.8%, to close at a record high of 43,077.70. The ...

All three major gauges pulled back from all-time highs on Tuesday as ASML's deep cut to its 2025 sales forecast dented faith ...

All three major gauges pulled back from all-time highs on Tuesday as ASML's deep cut to its 2025 sales forecast dented faith ...

The Dow and S&P 500 notched new highs on Friday, with the broader index closing above 5,800 for the first time as big US ...