Herman Hollerith
Mathematician
American statistician who, in 1889, invented a machine to rapidly tabulate statistics, making him the father of modern automatic computation.
He earned a bachelor's and Ph.D. in Mining Engineering from Columbia University.
The Tabulating Machine Company, which he founded, later merged to become IBM.
He married Lucia Beverly Talcott in 1890.
Another their New York-born scientist like him was Abraham Maslow.