Computer industry pioneers Herman Hollerith, inventor of the punch card system and one of the founders of what is now IBM, and Ken Olsen, the developer of the magnetic core for computers and founder of DEC, are two of the 10 people to have been named to the National Inventors Hall of Fame founded by the US Patent Office in Arlington, Virginia, reports Associated Press: Hollerith helped pave the way for modern computers and used his system to halve the time it took to tabulate the 1890 US national census; the 10 bring the total to date 85, and join Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers, Charles Goodyear and Henry Ford.
