Social science applications

  • Authors:
  • Ronald E. Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Social science research requirements have challenged the limits of computation for over a century. Several major milestones in the early history of computing were sparked by attempts to advance the social sciences. It was the US census of 1890 that inspired Herman Hollerith (q.v.), a social researcher, to design the first automated data processing machinery. Hollerith's punched card (q.v.) system, while not a true computer, provided the foundation for contemporary computer-based data management.