Herman Hollerith was a statistician who helped the U.S. Census tabulate data.

赫尔曼·霍尔瑞斯(Herman Hollerith)是一个统计学家，他曾帮助美国人口统计局编排数据。

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Statistician Herman Hollerith used punch cards to tabulate data from the 1890 U.S. census.

统计学家赫尔曼·霍尔瑞斯用打孔卡把1890年美国人口普查数据制成表格。

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The idea that Hollerith machines (or computers, to give their modern name) might sometimes be better than doctors at deciding how to treat a patient is now universally accepted.

关于霍勒里斯机器（或者是现代意义上的计算机）有时能比医生更好地制定患者治疗方案的观点目前已得到广泛认同。

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Hollerith also invented a sorting machine, to facilitate the tabulation of subsets of the population.

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Hollerith, a former employee of the Census Bureau, had the idea of building a tabulating machine.

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Perhaps the fact that Hollerith is forgotten, while Babbage is remembered, should not be so surprising after all.

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