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Konrad Zuse

Also known as Zuse, Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse

German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)

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Konrad Zuse was a person who lived from 1910-06-22 to 1995-12-18. He is associated with the Z4, a machine whose relays produced a rattling sound. In a quote, he described this sound as the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life.

Zuse has five recorded works. He is referenced by 248 other encyclopedia articles.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Konrad
Gender: male
Citizenship: Germany
Place of birth: Berlin
Place of death: Hünfeld
Child: Horst Zuse
Occupation: civil engineer
Educated at: Collegium Hosianum
Employer: Siemens
Languages spoken: German
Participant in: dOCUMENTA (13)
Field of work: computer science
Image: Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg
Work location: Germany

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date of death: 1995-12-18
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date of birth: 1910-06-22
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name in native language: Konrad Zuse
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011404
birth name: Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse
has works in the collection: ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
P8168: list of state leaders in 1803

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Encyclopedic overview

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (/ˈzuːsə/; German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.

Zuse was noted for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process control computer. In 1941, he founded one of the earliest computer businesses, producing the Z4, which became the world's first commercial computer. From 1943 to 1945 he designed Plankalkül, the first high-level programming language. In 1969, Zuse suggested the concept of a computation-based universe in his book Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space).

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