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When Hollerith Technologies was created, the team could not decide on a name. Since our first product dealt with education, we decided to name the company after a forgotten inventor named Herman Hollerith. While his name has been lost in the annals of history for many people, the impact of his inventions are felt everyday. 

Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American businessman, inventor, and statistician who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.

Hollerith founded a company that was amalgamated in 1911 with several other companies to form the Computer-Tabulation-Recording Company. In 1924, the company was renamed "International Business Machines" (IBM) and became one of the largest and most successful companies of the 20th century. Hollerith is regarded as one of the seminal figures in the development of data processing.

Hollerith Technologies has no connection to the real Hollerith family, we just wanted to name ourselves after a (mostly) forgotten inventor in the tech space. To learn more about Herman Hollerith's life, click here.