Last updated on:
3/3/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Herman Hollerith, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Founder of IBM Corporation
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Feb. 13, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- 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:
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- PhD, Engineering, Columbia University, 1890
- EM (Engineer of Mines), Columbia University School of Mines, 1879
- Other:
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- Died on 1929