Konrad Zuse
[.jpg) Konrad Zuse [1] Konrad Zuse, (June 22, 1910 - December 18, 1995)
a German engineer and computer pioneer [2]. His greatest achievement was the world’s first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941. Between 1943 and 1945 Zuse designed the high-level programming language Plankalkül [3] , first published about in 1948. Since 1941 Zuse worked on chess playing algorithms and formulated program routines [4] in Plankalkül in 1945.
His Calculating Space [5] started the field of Digital Physics in 1969, later popularized and extended by Edward Fredkin, Jürgen Schmidhuber [6] and Stephen Wolfram [7].
See also
Selected Publications
1940 …
Early Chess related manuscripts from the Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
- Konrad Zuse (1941). Vorbereitung des Plankalküls, logische Formalismen, Schachspiel.
- Konrad Zuse (1941). Vorarbeiten zum Plankalkül. Schachprogramme.
- Konrad Zuse (1942). Ausarbeitungen zur Programmierung des Schachspiels.
1950 …
- Konrad Zuse (1956). Große oder kleine programmgesteuerte Rechengeräte? Unternehmensforschung, Vol. 1, No. 1
- Konrad Zuse (1959). Über den Plankalkül.
1960 …
- Konrad Zuse (1967). Über sich selbst reproduzierende Systeme. Elektronische Rechenanlagen, Vol. 9, No. 2
- Konrad Zuse (1969). Rechnender Raum. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn. (1970). Calculating Space. MIT Technical Translation AZT-70-164-GEMIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( Project MAC) [11]
1970 …
- Konrad Zuse (1970). Der Computer mein Lebenswerk. Verlag Moderne Industrie, Wolfgang Dummer & Co., München. Second Edition (1990) published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
- Konrad Zuse (1972). Der Plankalkül. Bericht der Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH, Bonn, Nr. 63, pp. 235-285, St. Augustin. Translation of the original version Der Plankalkül 1945 in English by Gerhard Overhoff, (1974) published with new comment, (1976) under the title: The Plankalkül. Bericht der Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH, Bonn, Nr. 106, pp. 42-244, St. Augustin. Verlagsausgabe: Oldenbourg (1977), München. Second Edition (1989) published by R. Oldenbourg Verlag, München, Germany. Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie
- Konrad Zuse (1975). Vom Traum zür Wirklichkeit. Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund, Sondernummer 12, pp. 4. Wiederabdruck in Erstes GI Computer-Schach-Turnier (ed. Reinhard Zumkeller). Dortmund (1975), pp. 48-49.
- Konrad Zuse (1975). Mathematische Logik und Informatik. GI Jahrestagung 1975
- Konrad Zuse (1975). Rediscovery of buried ideas from the pioneer age of computers. Computer Architecture 1975
- Konrad Zuse (1979). Petri-Nets from the Engineer’s Viewpoint. Advanced Course: Net Theory and Applications 1979 [12]
1980 …
- Konrad Zuse (1980). Installation of the German Computer Z4 in Zurich in 1950. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 2, No 3
- Konrad Zuse (1982). The Computing Universe. International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 21, No. 6-7
- Konrad Zuse (1983). Der Computer und die Evolution menschlichen Denkens. Elektronische Rechenanlagen, Vol. 25, No. 6
1990 …
- Konrad Zuse (1990). The Way from the Computers Z1, Z3 and Z4 to Plankalkül. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
- Jaap van den Herik (1990). An Interview with Konrad Zuse. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
- Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (1996). Konrad Zuse: An Obituary. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1
- Raúl Rojas (1997). Konrad Zuse’s Legacy: The Architecture of the Z1 and Z3. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 19, No. 2
- Brian J. Shelburne (1999). Zuse’s Z3 Square Root Algorithm.
2000 …
- Friedrich L. Bauer (2000). The Plankalkül of Konrad Zuse - revisited. in The first computers : history and architectures edited by Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen, MIT Press
- Konrad Zuse (2008). Über den Plankalkül. (Reprint). Information Technology, Vol. 50, No 1.
2010 …
- Raúl Rojas (2010). Konrad Zuse: 1910-2010. Information Technology, Vol. 52, No. 1
- Herbert Bruderer (2011). Konrad Zuse und die ETH Zürich. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 34, No. 6 (German)
- Herbert Bruderer (2012). Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz - Wer hat den Computer erfunden. Oldenbourg Verlag (German)
- Raúl Rojas (2014). The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Konrad Zuse’s First Computer. arXiv:1406.1886
- Raúl Rojas (2014). Konrad Zuse’s Proposal for a Cipher Machine. Cryptologia, Vol. 38, No. 4
- Raúl Rojas (2016). The Design Principles of Konrad Zuse’s Mechanical Computers. arXiv:1603.02396
- Raúl Rojas (2016). Babbage Meets Zuse: A Minimal Mechanical Computer. UCNC 2016
External Links
ZIB
Bios
- Konrad Zuse Biography
- Konrad Zuse Biography by J. A. N. Lee, September 1994
- Konrad Zuse Biography © RT-Distribution
Schmidhuber
Zuse’s Thesis - Zuse hypothesis - Algorithmic Theory of Everything - Digital Physics, Rechnender Raum (Computing Space, Computing Cosmos) - Computable Universe - The Universe is a Computer - Theory of Everything by Jürgen Schmidhuber
Museums
- Zuse Extra: Der Computererfinder und seine Ideen from Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
- Konrad Zuse from The Computer History Museum
Misc
- Experten-Workshop über Arbeiten deutscher Rechner-Spezialisten:: GMD: Abschied von der Hardware-Forschung?, July 12, 1979, Computerwoche (German) » SMS 201
- Rassenforschung am Rechner by Hilmar Schmundt, Spiegel Online, June 14, 2010
- From the Z1 to the Singularity – Zuse’s 100th birthday by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, June 22, 2010
Computers
- Z1 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z2 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z3 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z4 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z5 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z11 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z22 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z23 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Z25 (computer) from Wikipedia
- Zuse Z3 im Deutschen Museum München, YouTube Video
Five Hertz, Demonstration of division (21/7) ( RPN) and sqrt(9) and sqrt(-8)
References
- ↑ Konrad Zuse, Photo by Wolfgang Hunscher, Dortmund, June 1992, Category:Konrad Zuse - Wikimedia Commons
- ↑ Jaap van den Herik (1990). An Interview with Konrad Zuse. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
- ↑ Raúl Rojas, Cüneyt Göktekin, Gerald Friedland, Mike Krüger, Ludmila Scharf, Olaf Langmack, Denis Kuniß (2000). Plankalkül: The First High-Level Programming Language and its Implementation, Free University of Berlin
- ↑ Friedrich L. Bauer (2000). The Plankalkül of Konrad Zuse - revisited. in The first computers : history and architectures edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen, MIT Press
- ↑ Konrad Zuse (1969). Rechnender Raum. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn. pdf, (1970). Calculating Space, MIT Technical Translation AZT-70-164-GEMIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( Project MAC)
- ↑ Zuse’s Thesis - Zuse hypothesis - Algorithmic Theory of Everything - Digital Physics, Rechnender Raum (Computing Space, Computing Cosmos) - Computable Universe - The Universe is a Computer - Theory of Everything by Jürgen Schmidhuber
- ↑ Konrad Zuse | Calculating Space from Wikipedia
- ↑ Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie, previously available from Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
- ↑ ICGA Reference Database
- ↑ dblp: Konrad Zuse
- ↑ Konrad Zuse Der rechnende Raum. Feature-Skript von Constanze Kurz und Marcus Richter, Hörspiel-Werkstatt, October 2006 (German) pdf
- ↑ Petri net from Wikipedia