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| | Konrad Zuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Zuse's thesis of digital physics and the computable universe | | | Zuse also designed a high-level programming language, the Plankalkül, allegedly in 1945, although this was a theoretical contribution, since the language was never actually implemented within his lifetime and did not directly influence early implemented languages. | | | Notable are the Z11, which was sold to the optics industry and to universities, and the Z22, the first computer with a memory based on magnetic storage. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
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| | Zuse |
| | The main reason why Zuse succeeded in building his mechanical computer where Babbage had failed, was the fact that Zuse's Z1 was a binary machine with two position switches to represent 0 and 1. | | | As well as his hardware developments Zuse was also interested in software and he developed the first algorithmic programming language known as "Plankalkül" in 1945. | | | The L1 computer which Zuse designed was not for solving arithmetical problems, but rather it was designed to solve logical problems. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Zuse.html
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| | Raul Roja's article on Zuse |
| | Konrad Zuse is popularly recognized in Germany as the "father of the computer" and his Z1, a programmable automaton built from 1936 to 1938, has been called the "first computer" in the world. | | | Zuse decided to build his first experimental calculating machine exploiting two main ideas: a) the machine would work with binary numbers; b) the computing and control unit would be separated from the storage. | | | Zuse's approach is sounder, since it frees the programmer from the tedium of checking the bounds of his numbers before each operation. |
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http://hjs.geol.uib.no/zuse/zusez1z3.htm
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| | Konrad Zuse: The Invention of the Computer |
| | Konrad Zuse and his computers - Horst Zuse | | | Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) with his Z3 computer at the Deutschen Museum | | | Konrad used relays to built logic gates - an arrangement of electronically-controlled switches used to calculate operations in Boolean algebra. |
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http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/zusecomputer.html
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| | Inventors Of The Modern Computer: Konrad Zuse - Inventors |
| | The Z1 was Zuse's test model, he used it to explore several, ground-breaking, technologies, in calculator development: on the software side there was program control, using the binary system of numbers and floating point arithmetic, a high-capacity memory, and modules or relays operating on the yes/no principle. | | | The first algorithmic programming language, called "Plankalkül", was developed by Konrad Zuse, in 1946, with which he wrote a chess playing program. | | | In 1939, Zuse completed the Z2, the first, fully functioning, electro-mechanical computer, which was able to complete his design for using relay type operations. |
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http://www.american.edu/carmel/ps1554a/Zuse.htm
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| | Computer History Museum - Lectures - Konrad Zuse Colloquium & Z23 Mainframe Dedication |
| | Zuse developed functioning program-controlled computing machinery as early as 1936 and went on to form a successful European computer business in the 1950s. | | | Ceruzzi will be discussing the early work of Konrad Zuse in the context of the invention of the digital computer, 1935-1950. | | | Professor Rojas will be speaking about Zuse's early machines (the Z1 - Z4) and will be demonstrating a reconstruction of the adding unit of the Z3 made of relays, which he is also kindly donating to Computer History Museum. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/zuse_10011999
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| | The Dead media Project:Working Notes:03.4 |
| | Zuse was soon convinced it was the right approach, and this led to the design of the Z3, which was probably the first operational, general-purpose, programmable computer. | | | Konrad Zuse, developer of the Z-1 through Z-4 machines was clearly one of those who foresaw the development of the computer and did something about it well before those whom we will acknowledge next year in Philadelphia. | | | KONRAD ZUSE, who invented the digital computer while no one else was looking, has died in Berlin at the age of 85. |
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http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/3/034.html
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| | Reckoners Chapter 2 |
| | Zuse's design is similar to the first design for a universal computer that was envisioned by Charles Babbage in the 1830's. | | | Zuse built one other computing machine during the war that ranks with the Z3 as a pioneering computing device. | | | Zuse proposed the name "logistic" (as mathematical logic was known in Germany) to describe it; it might well have been called "computer science," which is hardly a better phrase. |
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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Reckoners-ch-2.html
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| | Konrad Zuse (1910 - 1995) |
| | Zuse knew little of Bush's Differential Analyser, was almost completely unaware of Babbage's Analytical Engine theories, and had never heard of George Boole, and yet he set out to develop a general-purpose computer, designed to operate on boolean principles. | | | Never a man to give up easily, Zuse continued to work on his Z4 (essentially the same machine as the Z3, but with an increased memory of 32 bits), moving the machine all over the city to avoid the devastation of the Berlin blitz and discovery by allied troops. | | | By 1961, Zuse had started development on his Z25, a machine planned to be both smaller and less expensive than its predecessors. |
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http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/zuse.htm
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| | Zuse's Z3, the World's First Programmable Computer |
| | Konrad Zuse wrote the first algorithmic programming language called 'Plankalkül' in 1946, which he used to program his computers. | | | Below is a photograph of Konrad Zuse with the rebuilt Z3 in 1961. | | | In particular, it used "2,400 relays, 600 in the calculating and program section and 1,800 in the memory." And like in today's computers, the memory words had several components. |
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/06/07.html
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| | Independent, The (London): OBITUARY : Konrad Zuse |
| | Outside Germany, Konrad Zuse was almost unknown until the 1960s, and his computer research had no discernible impact on the mainstream of computer development. | | | In the 1970s and 1980s Zuse was showered with honorary degrees, and awards and medals from the computer and electrical engineering institutions. | | | Up to this time, Zuse's machines had been based on relay technology, which limited computing speeds to a few arithmetic operations a second. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19951221/ai_n14025121
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| | He Was the First, or Happy Birthday, Computer! |
| | Konrad Zuse is considered to be the inventor of the first computer | | | At the same time as he was building Z4, Konrad Zuse started developing and formulated the remarkably sophisticated programming language Plankalkül. | | | Z3 -- the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world -- was completed by Konrad Zuse in 1941. |
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http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa021401a.htm
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| | *** PONGMECHANIK *** |
| | So it is no surprise that Zuse's first computer was a mechanical computer. | | | When Konrad Zuse began building the first computer in 1935, the world was a different place. | | | Zuses Z4 Contrary to today's computers, Zuse's machines did not hide their interior workings behind sheetmetal cases, but presented it in a showcase. |
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http://www.cyberniklas.de/pongmechanik/indexen.html
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| | Computer History Museum - Zuse Computer Z23 |
| | The development of the computer Z23 began in 1958 by the Zuse KG and the first Z23 was delivered in 1961. | | | The students of the Class 11 IT of the Konrad Zuse Schule in Hünfeld restored together with the class teacher Bubenheim and Leopold Stein, who is a member of the Konrad Zuse Gesellschaft, the historical Z23 computer. | | | On April 30, 1999 19 students of the Konrad Zuse Schule (Konrad Zuse School) in Hünfeld, where Konrad Zuse lived from 1956 till his death in 1995, finished the assembly of the historical Computer Z23 of the Zuse KG for the delivery to Computer History Museum in Mountain View (California) close to San Francisco. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/projects/zuse_z23
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| | Konrad Zuse's Computers |
| | The reliabilty of the relais convinced Konrad Zuse and he built the Z3 completely with relays (600 in the arithmetic unit and 2600 for the memory and control unit). | | | From these definitions Konrad Zuse defined the architecture of his computers Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4. | | | His computers should be free programmable, it means that they should read arbitrary instructions from a punch tape, they should work in the binary digit system because Zuse wanted to contruct his computer with binary switching elements. |
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http://www.petrovi.de/slav/node2.html
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| | Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show |
| | Today, in the whole world Konrad Zuse almost unanimosly is accepted as the creator / inventor of the first free programmable computer with a binary floating point and switching system, which really worked. | | | Visit a short tour to Konrad Zuse's computers. | | | Konrad Zuse, also created the first programming language of the world, called the Plankalkül. |
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http://www.horst-zuse.homepage.t-online.de/show_en.html
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| | Cosmic Baseball-Konrad Zuse |
| | Born in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany, Konrad Zuse has been credit for developing the first electro-mechanical binary computer, orignally designated the VI and later renamed the Z1. | | | After the Z1 was destroyed, Zuse continued developing digital computers such as the Z3 and the Z4 which was taken out of Germany and brought to Switzerland as the war ended. | | | His basic hypothesis was that "data processing starts with the bit" and he defined computing as "the formation of new data from input according to a given set of rules." |
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http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/zuse6.html
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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | The first advanced programmer language "Plankalkuel" developed by Konrad Zuse and his nature philosophy are also introduced. | | | In a note book entry from June 20, 1937, Zuse predicted the future of the computer as follows: "With this primitive type of mechanical brain it should be possible to solve all thought tasks which are ascertainable by mechanisms." | | | The exhibition provides for the first time an overview of the life, inventions, and the artistic work of Konrad Zuse, who today enjoys worldwide recognition as the inventor of the first computers. |
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http://www.dtmb.de/Aktuelles/Sonderausstellungen/Zuse_Ausstellung/body_en.html
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| | KONRAD ZUSE |
| | Zuse also used Plankalkuel to design world's first chess program. | | | 1967: Zuse is the first to suggest that the universe itself is running on a grid of computers (digital physics); 1969 he publishes the book "Rechnender Raum" (Computing Space); in the new millennium such wild ideas have suddenly started to attract a lot of attention (e.g., see the "everything" archive). | | | Berlin not only was the unfortunate center of two world wars and the cold war (1914-1989), but also the origin of quantum physics (Planck, 1900), general relativity (Einstein, 1915), and program- controlled computer (Zuse, 1935-1941). |
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http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html
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| | Tribute to Konrad Zuse |
| | Konrad Zuse is known as the creator of the Z3 computer, which was the first freely programmable computer that actually worked. | | | Zuse is also recognized as the creator of the fisrt programming language of the world, which was called the Plankalk | | | The Z3 was program controlled, and it operated with a binary floating point and switching system. |
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http://www.cs.transy.edu/klowman/history.html
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| | Konrad Zuse -- Part II |
| | Konrad Zuse -- Part II Around 1950, after a number of modifications, the machine was set up in the Technical University of Switzerland in Zurich where it remained for several years, the only working computer in Europe. | | | "Konrad Zuse, der Weg zu seinem Computer Z3 (Konrad Zuse, the Path to His Z3 Computer)" Report 120, Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, R. Oldenbourg, Munich, 105 pp. | | | Ceruzzi, Paul E. "The Early Computers of Konrad Zuse, 1935 to 1945", Ann. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.2.html
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| | The "Plankalkül" of Konrad Zuse: A Forerunner of Today's Programming Languages |
| | Plankalkül was an attempt by Konrad Zuse in the 1940's to devise a notational and conceptual system for writing what today is termed a program. | | | In May 1945, Konrad Zuse, Berlin-born inventor and constructor, who had arrived with his relay computer Z4 at the little village of Hinterstein in the Allgäu Alps, found himself immobilized by the postwar situation and prevented from pursuing his business. | | | It should not be forgotten that Zuse did not only invent the Plankalkül, but that he used it to formulate some nontrivial programs of the nonnumerical kind (he called them logistisch-kombinativ) in order to demonstrate the potentialities of computing. |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/plankalkuel
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| | The History of Computers: Konrad Zuse |
| | From various sides Konrad Zuse was awarded with the title "Inventor of the computer". | | | Another extraordinary achievement is the first algorithmic programming language "Plankalkül" that was developed by Konrad Zuse in 1945/46. | | | When asked about it Konrad Zuse used to reply - "Well, I guess, it took many inventors besides me to develop the computer as we know it nowadays. |
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http://www2.fht-esslingen.de/studentisches/Computer_Geschichte/grp3/zuse.html
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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | During 1936 to 1938 Konrad Zuse developed and built the first binary digital computer in the world (Zl). | | | He remained in Berlin from the time he finished his degree until the end of the war in 1945, and it was during this time that he constructed his first digital computers. | | | The first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world (the Z3) was completed by Zuse in 1941, but was destroyed in 1944 during the war. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.html
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| | Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül: The First High-Level, "non von Neumann" Programming Language |
| | Konrad Zuse was the first person in history to build a working digital computer, a fact that is still not generally acknowledged. | | | Even less known is that in the years 1943-1945, Zuse developed a high-level programming model and, based on it, an algorithmic programming language called Plankalkül (plan calculus). | | | "Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül: The First High-Level, "non von Neumann" Programming Language," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. |
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http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/an/&toc=comp/mags/an/1997/02/a2toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/85.586068
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| | Konrad Zuse: Foreword |
| | The development of the computer is a fascinating story. | | | My first recollection of my father's computers is from 1949, when he took a photograph of me looking at the memory unit of a Z4 computer in Hopferau (Allgäu, Bavaria) (Fig.2). | | | Many brilliant scientists contributed to the development of the modern computer, including my father, Konrad Zuse (Fig.1). |
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http://www.epemag.com/zuse/foreword.htm
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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | For those of you, who do not yet know his name: on an international level, Konrad Zuse was the creator of the first really working fully automated, program-controlled and freely programmable computer using binary floating-point arithmetic. | | | Zuse rather late enjoyed international recognition, only recently the History of Computer Science put him into the right place. | | | After the Second World War Zuse started to design a rather future oriented programming language called "Plankalkuel" (plan calculus), which in fact shows certain construction principles of modern object oriented languages. |
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http://www.csc.fi/math_topics/Mail/NANET95/msg00966.html
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| | Open Directory - Computers: History: Pioneers: Zuse, Konrad |
| | Konrad Zuse and His Computers - By his son, Dr. Horst Zuse: a guided tour of Zuse computers and companies, the Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show, and Konrad Zuse's versus John von Neumann's computer concepts. | | | Konrad Zuse - Builder of the first functioning, freely programmable, and fully automatic computer (Z3), which he installed in his parents' living room in Berlin in 1941. | | | Konrad Zuse Internet Archive - Large Zuse site: papers, comments, programs, replicas, image gallery, links. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/History/Pioneers/Zuse,_Konrad
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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | Zuse created more advanced calculators, such as the Z4, and also devloped the first algorithmic programming language in 1945-46, called "Plankalkul." | | | Soon after, he and several friends built the world's first electronic, programmable calculator, named the Z3. | | | ZIB site: Information about the Konrad Zuse Center |
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http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/courses/CS110/History/KonradZuse.html
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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | Konrad Zuse's first computer, built between 1936 and 1938, was destroyed in the bombardment of Berlin in WW II, together with all construction plans. | | | The reason was that the Z1 contained almost all the important features of a modern computer. | | | In 1986 Konrad Zuse decided to rebuilt the Z1. |
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http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/Konrad_Zuse/en/Rechner_Z1.html
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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | Next Zuse's ideas involved his consideration of a device which would have an arm capable of moving over the serface of a table, much like today's flatbed plotters. | | | Developed the Z1 one of the first computers with a stored program mechanism. | | | Konrad Zuse was born in Berlin in 1910. |
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http://www.thocp.net/biographies/zuse_konrad.html
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| | DDJ>September |
| | Raul presents a working simulation (written in Java) of Konrad Zuse's Z3 computer, originally created in 1938. | | | And it is written in a visual object-oriented programming language called "HP Vee," developed by Hewlett-Packard. |
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http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0009/0009toc.htm
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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | This Site was created by Eric Knittel for Computer Science 1. | | | These are links to other Konrad Zuse sites. | | | This is the link to my class's homepage. |
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http://www.cs.transy.edu/eknittel/zuse.html
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| | Zuse, Konrad -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | "Zuse, Konrad." Britannica Book of the Year, 1996. | | | "Zuse, Konrad." Britannica Book of the Year, 1996 from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112370
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