15 Jun
2011
15 Jun
'11
1:17 p.m.
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Diane Bruce wrote:
Can I call Godwin on this thread? Please? ;-)
Sure
But, Mike explicitly makes an exception to his law when the discussion is
actually about Nazis, not just a simile or metaphor.
I don't understand, . . .
Hollerith (it's too bad that he didn't make it to his 30th birthday :-),
was of German ancestry, born in Buffalo, developed the hardware for
the 1890 census, . . .
but, the GERMAN "HOLLERITH" company was the foundation and technology of
IBM?? Wars sure seem to be economically advantageous for big
amoral corporations!
Hypotheses:
The GERMAN Hollerith company had in some way been a spinoff of the
american Hollerith company?
Watson's company changed name to INTERNATIONAL Business Machines when they
mad their first NON-AMERICAN acquisition, not necessarily that that was
the most important technology acquisition? (and/or coincidence that the
name change was 1 year after the Dehomag acquisition?)
mathematical algorithms:
Q: When is Hollerith's next birthday?
Q: How many is that?
Q: Why is 1900 especially important to that calculation?
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