Herman Hollerith
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American statistician and inventor
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Herman Hollerith's Degrees
- Bachelors Mining Engineering Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herman Hollerith 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. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.
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