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- Herman Hollerith was the son of German immigrant Georg Hollerith, a school teacher.
- He was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1860.
- He invented the punch card tabulating machine.
- He is regarded as the father of modern machine data processing.
- He graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1879.
- He teaches mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- In 1884, Hollerith resigned from his post in the U.S. Patent Office and began his career as a solo inventor and entrepreneur.
- He was awarded a doctorate in 1890 at the Columbia School of Mines, for his tabulating systems.
- In 1890, he married Lucia Beverly Talcott.
- He died in Washington, D.C., at age 69 due to a heart attack.