SOSC 1731 Study Guide - Final Guide: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Post Office Protocol, Herman Hollerith

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In fact, she was better at understanding babbage"s ideas than he was. Herman hollerith designed and built the census counting machine in order to help the census to collect the census data. Punched cards were used to collect the data and the cards were fed into a sorting machine before being read by the census counting machine. War year: 1940 - the middle of 50s attempts to make computers serve the purpose of war ordnances. The progression included the mark i (ibm and howard aiken) in 1944. Rear admiral grace hopper: she used his mark i for gunnery and ballistic calculation for the us bureau. Grace was the first modern woman to be a computer scientist. Forcibly retire in 1986 at the age of 80 then went to dec. The colossus, developed by tommy flowers, is arguably the world"s first working programmable electronic digital computer. John atanasoff: he invented the atanasoff berry computer (abc) with his assistant, clifford berry.