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Hollerith — Hollerith, Hermann, amerikanischer Bergbauingenieur und Erfinder, *Buffalo 29. 2. 1860, †Washington D. C. 17. 11. 1929; der Sohn deutscher Einwanderer entwickelte für das Amt für Volkszählung der USA, an dem er zeitweilig angestellt war, eine… … Universal-Lexikon
Hollerith — ist der Name von Herman Hollerith (1860−1929), US amerikanischer Unternehmer und Ingenieur Josef Hollerith (* 1955), deutscher Politiker (CSU) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben … Deutsch Wikipedia
HOLLERITH (H.) — HOLLERITH HERMANN (1860 1929) Ingénieur américain, diplômé de l’université Columbia (1879), Hollerith est, en 1880, l’assistant du statisticien William Petit à la même université, puis professeur de mécanique au Massachusetts Institute of… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Hollerith — noun United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860 1929) • Syn: ↑Herman Hollerith • Instance Hypernyms: ↑inventor, ↑discoverer, ↑artificer … Useful english dictionary
Hollerith constant — Hollerith constants, named in honor of Herman Hollerith, were used in early FORTRAN programs to allow manipulation of character data.Early FORTRAN had no CHARACTER data type; only numeric types. In order to perform character manipulation,… … Wikipedia
Hollerith Tabulating/Recording Machine — [dt. »Tabellier und Aufzeichnungsmaschine von Hollerith«], Hollerith Maschine … Universal-Lexikon
Hollerith encoding — was a standard for punch cards used in early computers. Until the early 1980 s, the use of these punch cards was a common form of computer input. These punch cards were 80 columns by 12 rows in size, and in the Hollerith encoding scheme, had one… … Wikipedia
Hollerith-Maschine — Hol|le|rith|ma|schi|ne auch: Hol|le|rith Ma|schi|ne 〈f. 19〉 = Lochkartenmaschine [nach dem Erfinder, dem Deutschamerikaner H. Hollerith, 1860 1929] * * * Hollerith Maschine, Maschine für die elektromechanische Auswertung von Lochkarten, die in… … Universal-Lexikon
Hollerith code — noun see hollerith * * * /hol euh rith/, Computers. a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values… … Useful english dictionary
Hollerith, Herman — born Feb. 29, 1860, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S. died Nov. 17, 1929, Washington, D.C. U.S. inventor. He attended Columbia University s School of Mines and later assisted in the 1880 U.S. census. By the time of the 1890 census, he had invented machines to… … Universalium
hollerith machine — ˈhälərə̇th noun also hollerith ( s) Usage: usually capitalized H Etymology: after Herman Hollerith, 19th century inventor : a machine for tabulating and sorting punched cards and tabulating data from them … Useful english dictionary
