Background
Werner Buchholz was born on 24 October 1922 in Detmold, Germany.
Werner Buchholz was born on 24 October 1922 in Detmold, Germany.
Werner was able to go to England in 1938 where he attended school, while Carl Hellmut emigrated to America.
After growing up in Europe, Buchholz moved to Canada and then to America. He worked for International Business Machines (International Business Machines Corporation) in New New York In July 1956, he coined the term byte for a unit of digital information.
In 1990, he was recognized as a computer pioneer by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Due to the growing anti-Semitism in Detmold in 1936, the family moved to Cologne. Because of the threat of invasion in May 1940, Werner with other refugee students was interned by the British and later sent to Canada.
With the help of the Jewish community in Toronto, he was released in 1941 and able to visit the University of Toronto. He completed his training as an electrical engineer in the United States at Caltech.
His work involved setting standards in the field of character encoding on computing systems
In 1956, he coined the term byte as a unit of digital information. A byte was an ordered collection of bits, which were the smallest amounts of data that a computer could process ("bite"). Personal
He worked 40 years at International Business Machines Corporation in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he participated in the development of the computer.
Werner Buchholz was a member of the team at International Business Machines Corporation that designed the International Business Machines Corporation 701 and the International Business Machines Corporation 7030 Stretch, International Business Machines Corporation"s first transistorized supercomputer.