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		Konrad Zuse, (June 22, 1910 - December 18, 1995) a German engineer and computer pioneer [1]. 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 [2] , first published about in 1948. Since 1941 Zuse worked on chess playing algorithms and formulated program routines [3] in Plankalkül in 1945. His "Rechnender Raum" (Calculating Space) [4] started the field of Digital Physics in 1969, later popularized and extended by Edward Fredkin, Jürgen Schmidhuber [5] and Stephen Wolfram [6].
Konrad Zuse [7]

Photos

Konrad Zuse with the rebuilt Z3 in 1961 [8]

Plankalkül and Chess

Images from Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie ^[9]

Plankalkül, two squares (v0, v1) are adjacent, if they are not equal, and both absolute rank and file distance are less or equal than one (L), structural square indices written vertically
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

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1940 ...

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

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) ^[11]

1970 ...

• 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
  Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie (pdf) from The Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
• 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) ^[12]

External Links

• Konrad Zuse from Wikipedia
• Details for Konrad Zuse - Oberwolfach Photo Collection
• Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
• Zuse-Institut Berlin: Konrad Zuse
  Konrad Zuse by Raúl Rojas
• 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
  Five Hertz, Demonstration of division (21/7) (RPN) and sqrt(9) and sqrt(-8)
  

References

1. ^ Jaap van den Herik (1990). An Interview with Konrad Zuse. ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2
2. ^ Raúl Rojas, Cüneyt Göktekin, Gerald Friedland, Mike Krüger, Ludmila Scharf, Olaf Langmack, Denis Kuniß (2000). Plankalkül: The First High-Level Programming Language and its Implementation, Free University of Berlin
3. ^ 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
4. ^ 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)
5. ^ 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
6. ^ Konrad Zuse | Calculating Space from Wikipedia
7. ^ Konrad Zuse Biography by J. A. N. Lee, September 1994
8. ^ Zuse's Z3, the World's First Programmable Computer, Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
9. ^ Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie (pdf) from The Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
10. ^ ICGA Reference Database (pdf)
11. ^ Konrad Zuse Der rechnende Raum. Feature-Skript von Constanze Kurz und Marcus Richter, Hörspiel-Werkstatt, October 2006 (German) pdf
12. ^ DIGITAL BRAINSTORMING: Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz oder: Wer hat den Computer erfunden (German)

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