Konrad Zuse

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[.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

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1940 …

Early Chess related manuscripts from the Konrad Zuse Internet Archive

1950 …

1960 …

1970 …

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 …

2000 …

2010 …

Zuse-Year 2010

ZIB

Bios

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

Misc

Computers

Five Hertz, Demonstration of division (21/7) ( RPN) and sqrt(9) and sqrt(-8)

References

  1. Konrad Zuse, Photo by Wolfgang Hunscher, Dortmund, June 1992, Category:Konrad Zuse - Wikimedia Commons
  2. Jaap van den Herik (1990). An Interview with Konrad Zuse. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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)
  6. 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
  7. Konrad Zuse | Calculating Space from Wikipedia
  8. Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie, previously available from Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
  9. ICGA Reference Database
  10. dblp: Konrad Zuse
  11. Konrad Zuse Der rechnende Raum. Feature-Skript von Constanze Kurz und Marcus Richter, Hörspiel-Werkstatt, October 2006 (German) pdf
  12. Petri net from Wikipedia

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