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Konrad Zuse

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Also known as Zuse, Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse

German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)

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Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer scientist who lived from 1910 to 1995 and made pioneering contributions to the development of early computing technology. His work laid important groundwork for modern computers during a crucial period in the history of computing.

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5 total works indexed

  1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,999x

  2. IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

    · 2013 · cited 9,541x

  3. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,188x

  4. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    · 2016 · cited 9,063x

  5. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 8,020x

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Quotes

  • “The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!”
  • “Die Gefahr, dass der Computer so wird wie der Mensch, ist nicht so groß wie die Gefahr, dass der Mensch so wird wie der Computer.”
  • “Der Glaube an eine bestimmte Idee gibt dem Forscher den Rückhalt für seine Arbeit. Ohne diesen Glauben wäre er verloren in einem Meer von Zweifeln und halbgültigen Beweisen.”
  • “Only too often the inventor is the idealist who, like Mephisto, tries to improve the world, only to be crushed by harsh realities. If he wants to carry through his ideas, he is forced to do business with the wielders of power, whose sense of reality is sharper and more developed.”

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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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