Herman Hollerith, PhD - Voting Machines - ProCon.org

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Herman Hollerith, PhD Biography

Title:

Founder of IBM Corporation

Position:

None Found to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"

Reasoning:

No position found as of Feb. 13, 2008

Involvement and Affiliations:

National Inventors Hall of Fame (posthumous), 1990
Patents first automated data computation system (U.S. Patent 395,782 458KB), which uses a system of punched cards, to improve the process of compiling the U.S. census, 1889
Considered the pioneer of modern computing
The company he founded, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), 1924
Bronze Medal, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1892
Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 1890
Medaille d’Or, Exposition Universelle de 1889, 1889

Education:

PhD, Engineering, Columbia University, 1890
EM (Engineer of Mines), Columbia University School of Mines, 1879

Other:

Died on 1929