. . . . "1860Z"^^ . . "Hollerith, Herman"@en . . . . "Ph.D. (1890, Columbia University)"@en . "1929Z"^^ . . . . . "1929-11-17Z"^^ . "Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 \u2013 November 17, 1929) was an American statistician and inventor who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the Tabulating Machine Company that later merged to become IBM. Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern machine data processing."@en . "statistician,inventor,businessman" . . . . "Herman Hollerith"@en . . "1860-02-29Z"^^ .