{
  "data": null,
  "kind": "anchor.page",
  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/herman-hollerith/",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/herman-hollerith/index.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/herman-hollerith/index.md",
    "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp",
    "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/herman-hollerith/index.min.md"
  },
  "markdown": "Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company).\n\nHerman Hollerith was a statistician and inventor who developed the electromechanical punched-card tabulating machine. The company he founded was one of those amalgamated in 1911 into the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which was renamed IBM in 1924.\n\n## What Herman builds\n\n- [Granite 4.2 3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md), graded C, 59.8/100, in Open-weight models. Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0. Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Granite Guardian](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-guardian.md), graded C, 60.1/100, in Guardrails \u0026 safety filters. Granite Guardian is IBM's family of open-weight judge models. The current 8-billion-parameter release answers yes or no on whether a prompt, response, retrieved context or function call meets a built-in or custom criterion, and the owner runs it. Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Granite Switch 4.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch.md), graded C, 59.4/100, in Decision models. Granite Switch 4.1 is IBM's open-weight 8B and 30B Granite 4.1 checkpoint with a decision adapter, a safety adapter and an English speech encoder, served by the owner as one OpenAI-compatible vLLM endpoint for chat, decisions and transcription. Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Charles Ranlett Flint](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-ranlett-flint/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)\n- [George Winthrop Fairchild](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/george-winthrop-fairchild/), Co-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)\n- [Inkit Padhi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/inkit-padhi/), First author, Granite Guardian paper (IBM Research)\n- [Parul Awasthy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/parul-awasthy/), First author, Granite Embedding R2 Models\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Herman Hollerith?\n\nHerman Hollerith was a statistician and inventor who developed the electromechanical punched-card tabulating machine. The company he founded was one of those amalgamated in 1911 into the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which was renamed IBM in 1924.\n\n### What does IBM make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Granite 4.2 3B, Granite Guardian and Granite Switch 4.1 from IBM. Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.\n\n### How are Herman's tools graded?\n\nGranite 4.2 3B is graded C, 59.8 out of 100; Granite Guardian is graded C, 60.1 out of 100; Granite Switch 4.1 is graded C, 59.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b\n- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b/discussions\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ranlett_Flint\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Fairchild\n- https://www.ibm.com/granite\n- https://www.ibm.com/us-en\n- https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/models/guardian\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ibm-granite/granite-guardian/main/README.md\n- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-4.1-8b/discussions\n- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-switch-4.1-8b\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/generative-computing/granite-switch/main/README.md\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
  "meta": {
    "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)",
    "attributionRequired": true,
    "credit": "CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link the page or API address you took it from (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)",
    "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/",
    "generatedAt": "2026-10-28",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/",
    "methodology": "0.7",
    "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json",
    "preview": false,
    "run": "2026-10-01",
    "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
    "terms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data"
  },
  "page": {
    "breadcrumbs": [
      {
        "name": "Home",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/"
      },
      {
        "name": "People building AI tools",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Herman Hollerith",
        "url": ""
      }
    ],
    "description": "Herman Hollerith is co-founder of IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company). Granite 4.2 3B, Granite Guardian and Granite Switch 4.1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.",
    "facts": null,
    "h1": "Herman Hollerith",
    "image": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/og/default.png",
    "path": "/people/herman-hollerith/",
    "published": "",
    "section": "people",
    "title": "Herman Hollerith, IBM | Anchor Terminal",
    "toc": null,
    "updated": "2026-10-27",
    "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/herman-hollerith/"
  },
  "tokens": {
    "markdown": 1250,
    "slim": 980
  },
  "version": 1
}