Herlihy was a pioneer in the use of computers to analyze socioeconomic
trends of the middle ages. In 1953 IBM corporation delivered the UNIVAC I
computer to the U.S. Census Bureau. The UNIVAC was the first commercial
computer to attract widespread public attention. Linguistic and literary
scholar and Jesuit priest, Father Roberto Busa, is widely credited as the
first digital humanities scholar, having collaborated with IBM to produce
the first machine-generated literary concordance in 1951. Herlihy is
acknowledged as the first historian to apply the power of the UNIVAC
computer to historical census, property, and tax records, providing
unprecedented social and economic insights to our understanding of the
past. He utilized computers for his entire career to compile and analyze
large quantities of data (“big data” in today’s terminology).


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