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| | Encyclopedia: Konrad Zuse |
 | | 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. | | | Zuse's thesis of digital physics and the computable universe | | | In 1967 Zuse also suggested that the universe itself is running on a grid of computers (digital physics); in 1969 he published the book Rechnender Raum (translated by MIT into English as Calculating Space, 1970). |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/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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| | Konrad Zuse: Preface |
| | Today, the Z3 is widely acknowledged as being the first fully functional automatic digital computer, and Konrad Zuse is acclaimed by computer scientists as being the most admired and respected computer pioneer. | | | The development of the Z4 and the Zuse Apparatebau from 1942 to 1945 in Berlin is described, and also the slightly modified architecture of the Z4 for the ETH-Zürich in 1950. | | | Also, Zuse was completely unaware of any computer-related developments in Germany or in other countries until a very late stage, so he independently conceived and implemented the principles of modern digital computers in isolation. |
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http://www.epemag.com/zuse
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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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| | 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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| | 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. | | | Zuse was the last of the "first tier" of computer pioneers: Aiken, Stibitz, Eckert, Mauchly, Atanasoff, Turing. | | | Zuse started to develop his ideas about computing in 1934, a year before he graduated from the Technische Hochschule with a degree in civil engineering. |
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http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/3/034.html
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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. | | | 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. | | | Below is a photograph of Konrad Zuse with the rebuilt Z3 in 1961. |
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/06/07.html
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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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| | 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. | | | Picture 4: Computer center in 1963 with Zuse Z23 computers. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/projects/zuse_z23
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| | Zuse, Konrad -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Zuse's language allowed for the creation of procedures (also called routines or subroutines; stored chunks of code that could be invoked repeatedly to perform routine operations such as taking a square root) and structured data (such as a record in a database, with a... | | | He was advised by a calculator manufacturer in 1937 that the field was a dead end and that every computing problem had already been solved. | | | One implication of the stored-program model was that programs could read and operate on other programs as data; that is, they would be capable of self-modification. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112370
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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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| | Konrad Zuse |
| | 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 first advanced programmer language "Plankalkuel" developed by Konrad Zuse and his nature philosophy are also introduced. | | | The exhibition presents along with the reconstruction of the world's first computer, other important original Zuse KG computers and never before shown documents, photographs, and numerous paintings. |
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http://dtmb.de/Aktuelles/Sonderausstellungen/Zuse_Ausstellung/body_en.html
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| | Zuse-Institut Berlin - Fussnavigation |
| | Konrad Zuse developed new ideas about computing but devoted most of his time to painting. | | | A tour of Konrad Zuse's computers assembled by Dr.-Ing. | | | Konrad Zuse - Inventor of the first freely programmable computer |
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http://www.zib.de/General/Prospekt/zuse/text.en.html
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| | The "Plankalkül" of Konrad Zuse: A Forerunner of Today's Programming Languages |
| | 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. | | | It cannot be excluded that Zuse considered the input parameters to be genuine variables whose values can be changed during the subroutine. | | | 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. |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/plankalkuel
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| | DDJ>Simulating Konrad Zuse's Computers |
| | Zuse decided to build his first prototype exploiting two main ideas -- that the machine would work with binary numbers and that the computing and control unit would be separated from the storage (this would be later called a "von Neumann architecture"). | | | However, 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 world's "first programmable calculating machine." | | | In 1938, Zuse started building the Z3, a machine consisting purely of electromechanical relays but with the same logical structure as the Z1. |
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http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=881/ddj0009e/0009e.htm
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| | ZUSE-FREDKIN-THESIS |
| | Juergen Schmidhuber makes the case that Konrad Zuse had the idea that the universe is running on a grid of computers as early as 1967. | | | Schmidhuber discusses this on his website: Zuse's Thesis: The Universe is a Computer. | | | Recently Schmidhuber observed, "Even earlier, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (who not only co-invented calculus but also built the first mechanical multiplier in 1670) caused a stir by claiming that everything is computable". |
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http://www.math.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_zuse_fredkin_thesis.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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| | Church-Turing Thesis is Almost Equivalent to Zuse-Fredkin Thesis |
| | Fredkin and Zuse, actually, went much further: they advanced the hypothesis that the solution of the problem what kind of computer the Universe is should be sought in a relatively narrow class of abstract mathematical models for parallel computation known as "cellular automata". | | | In the sixties Fredkin and Zuse came to another idea: that a Theory of everything, existing in the Universe, could be built on a universal computer. | | | The idea that the Universe might be a cellular automaton was independently proposed and published by Konrad Zuse in the late 1960's [Zus67, Zus69]. |
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http://digitalphysics.org/Publications/Petrov/Pet02a1/Pet02a1.htm
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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 |
| | 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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| | Zuse,Konrad - UK Shop Search > Zuse,Konrad |
| | Konrad Zuse Biography - introduction to the inventor of the world's first electronic, programmable computer, the Z3. | | | Der Rechner bestand aus Relais und gestatte Berechnungen mit 22 Bit Fließkommazahlen, die im Binärsystem gespeichert wurden. | | | Nearby terms: Z shell " ZUG " Zulu time " ZUSE " Zuse " Zuse, Konrad " zw. |
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| | Konrad Zuse's first computers - The Z1 |
| | Konrad Zuse's first computers - The Z1 The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse (by Horst Zuse) | | | In 1936, my father finished the logical plan for his first computer, the V1 (he later changed the name to Z1 in order to avoid any connection with the V1 rocket). | | | There was a clear separation between the punch tape reader, the control unit (which supervised the whole machine and the execution of the instructions), the arithmetic unit (with registers R1 and R2), the memory, and the input/output devices. |
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http://www.epemag.com/zuse/part3a.htm
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| | Konrad Zuse - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Konrad Zuse, Zuse, Konrad : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info] | | | Zuse, Konrad : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Konrad Zuse" is defined. |
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| | Zuse from FOLDOC |
| | The Zuse type system includes fully hidden types (similar to Modula-2 opaque types but without any implementation restriction), semi-open pointer types (same as Modula-2 opaque types), extensible record types (similar to Oberon-1 public projection types but without the compiler hint), enumeration types, extensible enumeration types, and extensible subrange types. | | | (After Konrad Zuse) A descendant of Ada, Modula-2, Mesa and Oberon-1, described by Christian Collberg in his PhD thesis 1991. | | | A type can also be protected by specifying the operations that particular modules may perform (similar to C++ friend classes and Ada private types). |
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http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Zuse
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| | Zuse Inc. - Contacting Zuse.com |
| | Custom Apparel with Your Logo 800 840 9335 | | | To place an order or get product and pricing information | | | Zuse Inc., 727 Boston Post Road, Guilford, CT 06437 |
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