# Herman Hollerith
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herman hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American businessman, inventor, and statistician who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.Hollerith founded a company that was amalgamated in 1911 with several other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. In 1924, the company was renamed "International Business Machines" (IBM) and became one of the largest and most successful companies of the 20th century.
UNTHNKBL LIVE Episode 5 - Building The Intelligent Brand Part One
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Have YOU heard?
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GMoLS7E38 Early Computing with Donald Clark
From Babbage to Turing: the roots of AI.
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Episode 75 - Counter Proposal
Meet Herman Hollerith - the founder of your digital world and archnemesis to The Count on Sesame Street.
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Dive into the fascinating mystery behind the missing 1890 U.S. Census records in this episode of the Podcast, "They Deleted A Generation: The Missing 1890 Records Pattern." Discover why genealogists and family historians hit a dead end while tracing ancestry past 1890 and explore how the loss of t…
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155: What's your uncertainty budget?
Why does the same uncertainty make one team lean in and another freeze?
We think it comes down to budget. Every organisation can only absorb so much uncertainty before it stops feeling like opportunity and starts feeling like a threat. And over the past couple of years, a lot of that budget has bee…
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