1890 - The U.S. Constitution mandates a census, or headcount, of the country's population every ten years. When the Constitution was written, the main reason for the census was to know the number of ...

Since its publication in February, Edwin Black's book "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" has stirred unprecedented controversy ...

Commissioned by the United States Census Bureau to make counting people easier, the device would lead to the creation of IBM After the United States Census Bureau dispatched its workers across the ...

The first automatic data processing system. Developed by Herman Hollerith, a Census Bureau statistician, the machine was first used to count the U.S. census of 1890. It was so successful that ...

Since its publication in February, Edwin Black's book, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation, has stirred unprecedented controversy ...