Leo Wenzel Pollak (1888-1964): Czechoslovakian pioneer in scientific data processing

Author

Kistermann, Friedrich W.

Author_Institution

Ahomstr. 8, Holzgerlingen, Germany

Volume

21

Issue

4

fYear

1999

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

68

Abstract

A few years ago, the author wrote a report about the development of the Hollerith Punched Card System (F.W. Kistermann, 1995). One section dealt with the application of punched cards in science and engineering. Looking at the literature of this field in Europe, the author found the name of Leo Wenzel Pollak in Prague in the 1934 Hollerith Nachrichten, the customer journal of the Berlin DEHOMAG Company (L.W. Pollak and F. Kaiser, 1934). Pollak´s paper turned out to be the culmination of seven years´ intensive use of punched cards in scientific data processing-a project that has, so far, not been appreciated in the history of data processing

Keywords

bibliographies; history; natural sciences computing; punched card equipment; 1934 Hollerith Nachrichten; Berlin DEHOMAG Company; Czechoslovakian pioneer; Hollerith Punched Card System; Leo Wenzel Pollak; customer journal; history; punched cards; scientific data processing; Continents; Data processing; Europe; Harmonic analysis; History; Low earth orbit satellites; Meteorology; Statistical analysis; Tides; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/85.801534

Filename

801534