Name: Herman Hollerith

Born: February 29, 1860, in Buffalo, New York, USA

Death: November 17, 1929 (Age: 69)

  • American statistician and founder of the company now known as IBM.
  • Developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data.
  • Thomas Watson

Honors and awards

  • Elliott Cresson Medal (1890).