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 ...

This handwritten letter of Francis A. Walker, superintendent of the Census, introduces Herman Hollerith, E.M., as a special agent of the Census Office for collecting statistics on power and machinery ...

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 ...

David Hollerith covers the financial sector ranging from the country’s biggest banks to regional lenders, private equity firms and the cryptocurrency space. Previously, he worked for a crypto ...

Portability was problematic with Hollerith constants. First, word sizes varied on different computer systems, so the number of characters that could be placed in each data item likewise varied.

What most people did do, however, was punch cards. Technically, Hollerith cards, although we mostly just called them cards, punched cards, or IBM cards. There were a lot of different machines ...

The binary principle embodied in the operation of the loom was inspiration to Charles Babbage and, later, to Herman Hollerith who developed the first commercial punch card equipment. See Hollerith ...

In the early decades of computers, programs were often hand written on coding sheets; these sheets would then be handed to card punch operators that would turn the program into a deck of Hollerith ...

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.

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.

During the 1880s the engineer Herman Hollerith devised a set of machines for compiling data from the United States Census. Hollerith's tabulating system included a punch for entering data about each ...