Konrad+Zuse

a German engineer and computer pioneer. 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], first published about in 1948. Since 1941 Zuse worked on chess playing algorithms and formulated program routines in Plankalkül in 1945.
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 * [[image:Zuse.JPG width="145" height="175" link="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/%7Ehistory/Zuse.html"]] ||~  || **Konrad Zuse**, (June 22, 1910 - December 18, 1995)

His "Rechnender Raum" ([|Calculating Space]) started the field of [|Digital Physics] in 1969, later popularized and extended by Edward Fredkin, Jürgen Schmidhuber and [|Stephen Wolfram]. || toc =Photos=  =Plankalkül and Chess= Images from //Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie// are less or equal than one (L), structural square indices written vertically ||
 * Konrad Zuse ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:Zuse_z3_1.jpg width="512" height="404" link="http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/06/07.html"]] ||
 * Konrad Zuse with the rebuilt Z3 in 1961 ||
 * [[image:Pkadjacent.JPG]] ||
 * [|Plankalkül], two squares (v0, v1) are adjacent, if they are not equal, and both absolute rank and file distance
 * [[image:ZuseChessboard.JPG]] ||
 * Zuse's 8x8 Board with three bit file, rank coordinates: a1 = 000, 000; e2 = L00, 00L ||
 * Zuse's 8x8 Board with three bit file, rank coordinates: a1 = 000, 000; e2 = L00, 00L ||

=See also=
 * Alan Turing
 * Alan Turing webcast from Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
 * History of Computer Chess

=Selected Publications=

1940 ...
> [|Vorbereitung des Plankalküls, logische Formalismen, Schachspiel. 1941] (pdf) > [|Vorarbeiten zum Plankalkül. Schachprogramme. 1941] (pdf) > [|Ausarbeitungen zur Programmierung des Schachspiels. 1942] (pdf)
 * Early Chess related documents from [|The Konrad Zuse Internet Archive], [|Documents - Chronological - From 1940 to 1949]

1960 ...

 * 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])

1970 ...
> [|Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie] (pdf) from [|The Konrad Zuse Internet Archive]
 * Konrad Zuse (**1970**). //Der Computer mein Lebenswerk//. Verlag Moderne Industrie, Wolfgang Dummer & Co., München. Second Edition (1990) published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
 * Konrad Zuse (**1972**). //Der Plankalkül//. Bericht der [|Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH], Bonn, Nr. 63, pp. 235-285, St. Augustin. Translation of the original version '//Der Plankalkül 1945//' in English by [|Gerhard Overhoff], (**1974**) published with new comment, (**1976**) under the title: //The Plankalkül//. Bericht der [|Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH], Bonn, Nr. 106, pp. 42-244, St. Augustin. Verlagsausgabe: Oldenbourg (**1977**), München. Second Edition (**1989**) published by R. Oldenbourg Verlag, München, Germany. [|text of the 1945 manuscript, pdf]
 * Konrad Zuse (**1975**). //Vom Traum zür Wirklichkeit//. Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund, Sondernummer 12, pp. 4. Wiederabdruck in Erstes GI Computer-Schach-Turnier (ed. Reinhard Zumkeller). Dortmund (**1975**), pp. 48-49.

1980 ...

 * Konrad Zuse (**1982**). //[|The Computing Universe]//. International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 21, No. 6-7, pp. 589 ff.

1990 ...

 * Konrad Zuse (**1990**). //The Way from the Computers Z1, Z3 and Z4 to Plankalkül//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
 * Jaap van den Herik (**1990**). //An Interview with Konrad Zuse.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
 * Bob Herschberg, Jaap van den Herik (**1996**). //Konrad Zuse: An Obituary//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1
 * [|Brian J. Shelburne] (**1999**). //Zuse's Z3 Square Root Algorithm//. [|pdf]

2000 ...

 * 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]

2010 ...

 * Herbert Bruderer (**2012**). //Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz//. [|Oldenbourg Verlag], ISBN 978-3-486-71366-4 (German)

=External Links= > [|Konrad Zuse] by Raúl Rojas > Five [|Hertz], Demonstration of division (21/7) ([|RPN]) and [|sqrt](9) and sqrt(-8) > media type="custom" key="24007194"
 * [|Konrad Zuse from Wikipedia]
 * [|Details for Konrad Zuse - Oberwolfach Photo Collection]
 * [|Konrad Zuse Internet Archive]
 * [|Zuse-Institut Berlin: Konrad Zuse]
 * [|Konrad Zuse Biography] by [|J. A. N. Lee], September 1994
 * [|Konrad Zuse Biography] © RT-Distribution
 * [|Konrad Zuse] by Jürgen 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
 * [|Konrad Zuse] from Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
 * [|Fellow Awards | Konrad Zuse] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|Konrad Zuse Computermuseum Hoyerswerda] (German)
 * [|Computer Chess] (pdf) by [|Margarita Esponda], Free University of Berlin
 * [|Experten-Workshop über Arbeiten deutscher Rechner-Spezialisten:: GMD: Abschied von der Hardware-Forschung?], July 12, 1979, Computerwoche (German) » SMS 201
 * [|Der Nachbau der Rechenmaschine Z3] initiated by Raúl Rojas and [|Horst Zuse]
 * [|Zuse-Year 2010]
 * [|Rassenforschung am Rechner] by [|Hilmar Schmundt], [|Spiegel Online], June 14, 2010, [|translated] by [|Google translate]
 * [|From the Z1 to the Singularity – Zuse's 100th birthday] by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, June 22, 2010
 * [|Konrad Zuse - Als die Rechner rechnen lernten - Konrad Zuse - Digital] - [|sueddeutsche.de], June 22, 2010 (German)
 * [|Gedenkmünze Deutschland 2010: Konrad Zuse - Der Vater des Computers] (German)
 * [|Zuse Z3] im [|Deutschen Museum] [|München], [|YouTube] Video

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