IP: Article: From Punchcards To Tbytes, IBM Counts Heads

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:02:41 -0500
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Randy Sparkman <rsparkman () att net>
> Subject: Article: From Punchcards To Tbytes, IBM Counts Heads
>
> Dave,
>
> Your readers may find this interesting:
>
>
> > From Punchcards To Tbytes, IBM Counts Heads
>
> "On Wednesday, IBM announced details of the technology that will manage the data collected by the Census Bureau of the 
> United States Department of Commerce. IBM is building the technology that will allow users to analyze and view census 
> data via the American FactFinder website. 
>
> With the announcement, Big Blue closes a circle that began more than one hundred years ago when a census bureau 
> statistician, Herman Hollerith, developed a machine to tabulate data from punch cards. Hollerith eventually left the 
> bureau to form Tabulating Machine, a forebear to modern IBM. "
>
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990617S0009
>
>
>
> -- Randy Sparkman
>
> www.serigamy/sparkman