Herman Hollerith/Definition

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is developing and not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
A definition or brief description of Herman Hollerith.

(February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) An American engineer and businessman important in the history of computing for having invented punched card input for program instructions and developed the tabulating company that became International Business Machines.