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How the US census kickstarted America's computing industry

  • Written by David Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George's Community College
How the US census kickstarted America's computing industryAn employee creates punch cards using information from a filled in 1950 Census Population Form.U.S. Census Bureau

The U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade.

This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear from the controversy over the...

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