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Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computerage. He created thefirst fully automated, programcontrolled, freely programmable computer using binaryfloating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941.Hebuilt his first machines in Berlin during the Second WorldWar, with bombs falling all around, and after the war hebuilt up a company that wastaken over by Siemens in 1967.Zuse was an inventor in the traditionalstyle, full ofphantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerfulanalyticalmind. Single-handedly, he developed one of the firstprogramming languages, the Plan Calculus, including featurescopied only decades later in other languages. He wrotenumerousbooks and articles and won many honors and awards.This is hisautobiography, written in an engagingly livelyand pleasant style, full ofanecdotes, reminiscences, andphilosophical asides. It traces his life from his childhoodin East Prussia, through tense wartime experiences andhardtimes building up his business after the war, to a ripe oldage andwell-earned celebrity.Amazon.com Review
Personal computers didn't appear until the 1970s, but as early as 1941, the first automated, program-controlled, and freely programmable computer was up and running. The Computer--My Life is the story of Konrad Zuse and his revolutionary invention--the computer (or mechanical brain as he liked to call it), which Zuse built in his parents' living room. Zuse writes his autobiography simply and directly to be accessible to a wide audience of non-technophiles and includes hand-drawn diagrams of computer functions, as well as cartoons from his younger years when he dreamed of becoming an artist. The book also includes appendices with detailed technical information for the more technical reader. ... Read more

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One of the few imporant biographies of the 20th century.
This book and its author are just amazing. Konrad Zuse is definitly a unique character and so is his story of the invention of the FIRST computer during World War II in Berlin.

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An excellent source of information for those who mistakenly thought that ENIAC was the first general purpose computer.

Critical for an understanding of the hist. of computers
Zuse explains how and why he build the world's first computer.Easy to understand, but not belittling.This book is essential for anyone interested in the history of CS. ... Read more

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Der erste funktionsfähige Computer wurde von Konrad Zuse gebaut. Diese vollautomatische, programmgesteuerte, frei programmierbare, in binärer Gleitpunktzahlrechnung arbeitende Rechenanlage war 1941 betriebsbereit. Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages von Konrad Zuse (22. Juni 2010), der mit einem Zuse-Jahr begangen wird, erscheint die Autobiografie des Computer-Pioniers in einer Sonderauflage. Er erzählt darin die Geschichte seines Lebens und liefert zugleich eine eindrucksvolle Darstellung der Anfänge des Computer-Zeitalters. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wernher Von Braun, Albert Speer, Eugene Wigner, Konrad Zuse, Fritz Haber, Alfred Stieglitz, Ursula Franklin, Arthur Rudolph, Ida Noddack, Erich Schumann, Ion Gigurtu, Fritz Houtermans, Wojciech Korfanty, Edward Lasker, Dennis Gabor, Henri Coandă, Hugo Junkers, Georg Von Arco, Walter Kaufmann, Adolf Slaby, Georg Hans Madelung, Kurt Tank, Carl Bosch, Johan Koren Christie, Rudolf Mössbauer, Werner Hosewinckel Christie, Johannes Mayer, Krafft Arnold Ehricke, Heinz-Hermann Koelle, Wolfgang Paul, Paul Rosbaud, Hans-Paul Schwefel, Hans Klein, Ernst Steinitz, Ernst Herzfeld, Max Cetto, Fritz Gosslau, Christian Fürst, Philipp Mißfelder, Klaus Riedel, Ingo Rechenberg, Harald Uhlig, Max Berg, Wilhelm Nusselt. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, astronautics engineer and space architect, becoming one of the leading figures in the creation of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. He was a member of the Nazi party and a commissioned SS officer. Wernher von Braun was said to be the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century. In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's pre-war rocket development programme, responsible for the design and realization of the deadly V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some of his rocket team were taken to the United States as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip. In 1955, ten years after entering the country, von Braun became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Von Braun worked on the US Army intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated by NASA, under which he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Fl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33783 ... Read more

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Chapters: Konrad Zuse, Wau Holland, Matthias Ettrich, Gernot Heiser, Andy Bechtolsheim, Ernst Dickmanns, Kurt Mehlhorn, Hans Georg Bock, Michael M. Richter, Klaus Samelson, Sebastian Thrun, Michael Baumgardt, Kai Krause, Sven Koenig, Reiner Hartenstein, Michael Kohlhase, Bernhard Preim, Peter Baumann, Wolfram Burgard, Friedrich L. Bauer, Hartmut Neven, Karl Steinbuch, Marcus Hutter, Christoph Meinel, Michael Kölling, Hans-Paul Schwefel, Markus Kuhn, Cyrill Stachniss, Bernhard Nebel, Rudi Studer, Wolfgang Nebel, Egon Börger, Wilfried Brauer, Michael E. Auer, Raimund Seidel, Manfred Broy, Frieder Nake, Susanne Albers, Jochen Liedtke, Gerhard Weikum, Christof Ebert, Carl Adam Petri, Pascal Costanza, Holger H. Hoos, Hartmut Surmann, Maren Bennewitz, Jörg-Rüdiger Sack, Friedemann Mattern, Ingo Rechenberg, Klaus Dittrich, Osmar R. Zaiane, Wolfgang Wahlster, Franz Baader, Martin Odersky, Udo Frese, Hans Meuer, Klaus Knopper, Harald Ganzinger, Dieter Fox, Torsten Suel, Arnold Schönhage, Alexander Strehl, Juergen Pirner, Rudolf Bayer, Christof Leng, Bernhard Korte, Günter Hotz, Horst Zuse, Bernhard Schölkopf, Dietmar Saupe, Walter F. Tichy, Hans Hagen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 209. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Konrad Zuse (pronounced ; 22 June 1910 Berlin 18 December 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a punched tape). He received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring in 1964 for the Z3. His S2 computing machine is considered the first process-controlled computer, which was used to help develop the Henschel Werke HS-293 and HS-294, which were precursors to the modern cruise missile. It is also considered one of the first ana...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16810 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Douglas Engelbart, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, Martin Brennan, Chuck Peddle, Lynn Conway, Voja Antonić, Gordon Bell, Gene Amdahl, Tommy Flowers, Curtis Cem, Adam Osborne, Dave Smith, Hewitt Crane, Mark Kryder, Ken Olsen, Robert S. Barton, Bil Herd, Dirk Gates, David May, Joel Emer, Gordon Hughes, John Cocke, Justin Rattner, Harry Huskey, John Gustafson, Hans R. Camenzind, Nick Dewolf, Marcian Hoff, Dirk Meyer, Allen Coombs, Quinn Weng, Marc Tremblay, Tom West, William English, Tryggve Fossum. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the worlds increasingly urgent and complex problems. His lab at SRI was responsible for more breakthrough innovation than possibly any other lab before or since. Engelbart had embedded in his lab a set of organizing principles, which he termed his "bootstrapping strategy", which he specifically designed to bootstrap and accelerate the rate of innovation achievable. Engelbart was born in the U.S. state of Oregon on January 30, 1925 to Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart. He is of German, Swedish and Norwegian descent. He was the middle of three children, with a sister Dorianne (3 years older), and a brother David (14 months younger). They lived in Portland in his early years, and moved to the countryside to a place called Johnson Creek when he was 9 or 10, after the death of his father. He graduated from Portland's Frankl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8081 ... Read more

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Digital philosophy is a direction in philosophy and cosmology advocated by certain mathematicians and theoretical physicists, e.g., Gregory Chaitin, Edward Fredkin, Stephen Wolfram, and Konrad Zuse (see his Calculating Space). Digital philosophy grew out of an earlier digital physics (both terms are due to Fredkin), which proposes to ground much of physical theory in cellular automata. Specifically, digital physics works through the consequences of assuming that the universe is a gigantic Turing-complete cellular automaton. Digital philosophy is a modern re-interpretation of Gottfried Leibniz's monist metaphysics, one that replaces Leibniz's monads with aspects of the theory of cellular automata. Digital philosophy purports to solve certain hard problems in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of physics, since, following Leibniz, the mind can be given a computational treatment. The digital approach also dispenses with the non-deterministic essentialism of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory. In a digital universe, existence and thought would consist of only computation. ... Read more

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A Collection of Wikipedia Articles Bound and Sold for $90+
While useful for a physical reference, the book amounts to a collection of Wikipedia articles thrown together into a single volume and drastically over priced. At 200 pages, I could get my local copy shop to print out the articles and bind them together for about $20. If you want to see the content of the book, check out the table of contents then see the wikipedia articles of the same name. Amazon.com should have on the page in clear view at least a sentence from the imprint "All parts of this book are extracted from Wikipedia, the FREE encyclopedia ([...])."

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Konrad Zuse, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Herman Hollerith, Bill Gates, Gordon Moore, Dave Winer, Marc Andreessen, Jack Tramiel, Kai Krause, Jimmy Wales, Heinz Nixdorf, Lars Windhorst, Thomas Hornauer, Paul Allen, Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Hasso Plattner, Mark Shuttleworth, Dan Kaminsky, Dietmar Hopp, Larry Ellison, Tobias Huch, Loïc Le Meur, Charles Simonyi, Declan Ganley, Kim Schmitz, Jost Stollmann, Anousheh Ansari, Michael Merz, Tyron Montgomery, Takafumi Horie, Nolan Bushnell, Jaron Lanier, Shai Agassi, Pierre Omidyar, Michael Rotert, Gene Amdahl, Clive Sinclair, Mark Zuckerberg, Andy Hopper, Michael Dell, Karl Steinberg, Ed Roberts, Lars Hinrichs, John Romero, Masayoshi Son, Ralph Burkei, Ross Perot, Joanna Rutkowska, Alexander Falk, Satoru Iwata, Klaus Tschira, Jawed Karim, Marco Börries, Oliver Samwer, Jean Hoerni, Klaus Christian Plönzke, Jewgeni Walentinowitsch Kasperski, Hans-Werner Hector, Peter Eichhorst, Claus Wellenreuther, Mitch Kapor, Miguel de Icaza, John Gilmore, Alexander Samwer, Robert Noyce, Bill Joy, Bill McCabe, John Donahoe, Sergei Michailowitsch Brin, Heinz Sebiger, Ailin Gräf, Colin Hood, Raymond Noorda, John Doerr, David Packard, Gerhard Lengeling, Craig Newmark, Mark Cuban, Jay Last, Peer Heinlein, Jeffrey Skoll, Steve Kirsch, Jerry Yang, Larry Page, Marc Samwer, Peter Thiel, Richard Egan, John Walker, Scott McNealy, William Hewlett, Shawn Fanning, Philippe Kahn, Andrew Grove, Niklas Zennström, Daniel M. Lewin, Kevin Ham, Mike Lazaridis, Thomas Siebel, Jeff Hawkins, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Sigram Schindler, Michaela Merz, Carol Bartz, Jeff Bezos, Axel Rückert, Peter Norton, Ralf Spenneberg, Alan Shugart, Michael Robertson, Mark Spencer, Andrew McKelvey, Steve Case, Siegbert Wort...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=2622 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Jürgen Habermas, Konrad Zuse, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Alfred Grosser, Oswald von Nell-Breuning, Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, Peter Härtling, Elisabeth Selbert, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Ernst Klee, Ignatz Bubis, Margarete Mitscherlich, Alexander Mitscherlich, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Medaille, Hans Matthöfer, Jutta Fleck, Georg August Zinn, Horst Bingel, Albert Osswald, Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, Eduard Schick, Winfried Hassemer, Emil Mangelsdorff, Willi Birkelbach, Toby E. Rodes, Trude Simonsohn, Cuno Raabe, Irmgard Heydorn, Gerhard Pieschl, Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg, Ludwig Gehm, Helga Einsele, Rudolf Friedrich, Herbert Lewin, Heinrich Zinnkann, Luise Berthold, Hanna Walz, Otto Braun, Kurt Oeser, Otto Zink, Joseph Wagenbach, Robert H. Lochner, Hans Reinowski, Georg Gaßmann, Max Bach, Fritz Hoch, Otto Wilke, Erich Großkopf, Alfred Schmidt, Luca Giacomo Bortoli, Karl Eugen Becker,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Jürgen Habermas (* 18. Juni 1929 in Düsseldorf) ist einer der weltweit meist rezipierten Philosophen und Soziologen der Gegenwart. Er wurde bekannt durch Arbeiten zur Sozialphilosophie mit diskurs-, handlungs- und rationalitätstheoretischen Beiträgen, in denen er eine konstruktive Umformung der Kritischen Theorie verfolgte. Habermas sieht die Grundlage der Gesellschaft kommunikativ und durch Geltungsgründe bestimmt. Habermas 2007 an der Hochschule für Philosophie München Nicht zuletzt durch regelmäßige Lehrtätigkeiten an ausländischen Universitäten, vor allem in den USA, sowie aufgrund von Übersetzungen seiner wichtigsten Arbeiten werden seine Theorien weltweit diskutiert. Er zählt zu den bekanntesten Vertretern der nachfolgenden Generation de...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=2542 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 844 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Reviews the history of the discipline and its concepts, and profiles contributors in the field. The impact of computers on society is explored, with examples in literature and film to illustrate and support trends. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Computer, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Alan Turing, Konrad Zuse, Ada Lovelace, Differenzmaschine, Steve Wozniak, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Plankalkül, Niklaus Wirth, Lochkarte, Analytical Engine, Heimcomputer, Geschichte Von Unix, Zuse Z3, Joseph Weizenbaum, Grace Hopper, Analogrechner, Von-Neumann-Architektur, Geschichte Des Internets, Geschichte Von Linux, Geschichte Der Computergrafik, Deutsches Rechenzentrum, Maschinelles Berichtswesen, Browserkrieg, Kernspeicher, Geschichte Der Programmiersprachen, Pdp-11, Technizität, Lisp-Maschine, Heinz Nixdorf, Universal Automatic Calculator, Maestro I, Geschichte Und Entwicklung Des Streaming Media, Mechanismus Von Antikythera, Eike Jessen, Emanuel Goldberg, Bs2000, Eniac, Lochkartentechnik, Verzögerungsleitung, Lochstreifen, Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch, Chronologie Des Internets, Entwicklung Der Betriebssysteme, Labor Für Impulstechnik, Siegfried Koller, Wilfried de Beauclair, Max Newman, Tabelliermaschine, John Warner Backus, Engineering Research Associates, Zra 1, Zuse Z22, Colossus, Helmut Schreyer, George Stibitz, Helmut Gröttrup, Kurt Passow, Prestel, Seymour Cray, Retrospiel, Heinz Billing, Loi N°68-1 Article 7, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, Simon, Univac I, Howard Hathaway Aiken, Atanasoff-Berry-Computer, Memex, Reichspersonalnummer, Naval Tactical Data System, Peter Eichhorst, Zuse Kg, Pdp-10, Chronologie Der Hypertext-Technologien, Heinz Zemanek, Ermeth, Mailüfterl, Wallace John Eckert, Ibm 7070, John William Mauchly, Nixdorf System 820, Tx-0, Zuse Z4, Manchester Mark I, Hans Hosemann, Univac Ii, Univac 418, Marianne Laqueur, Zuse Z1, Remington Rand 409, Univac 1108, Univac 1103, Univac Iii, John Presper Eckert, Maniac I, Apollo/domain, Whirlwind, Ralph E. Griswold, Medichi Workshop, Univac Athena, Besm, Wilhelm Kämmerer, Univac 1101, Ibm 704, Flow-Matic, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, Binac, Ibm 305 Ramac, William C. Norris, Electronic Discrete Variable ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Konrad Zuse, Frankfurt-Bebraer Eisenbahn, Justizvollzugsanstalt Hünfeld, Wilm Hosenfeld, Wigbertschule, Mackenzell, Bahnstrecke Bebra-Fulda, St.-Jakobus-Kirche, Buchfinkenland, Rückers, Bonifatiuskloster,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (* 22. Juni 1910 in Berlin; † 18. Dezember 1995 in Hünfeld bei Fulda) war ein deutscher Bauingenieur, Erfinder und Unternehmer (Zuse KG). Mit seiner Entwicklung der Z3 im Jahre 1941 baute er den ersten vollautomatischen, programmgesteuerten und frei programmierten, in binärer Gleitpunktrechnung arbeitenden Computer der Welt. Konrad Zuse wurde am 22. Juni 1910 in Berlin als Sohn von Maria und Emil Zuse geboren. Er hatte eine ältere Schwester, über die er meinte, „sie hatte das Pech, in der damaligen Zeit als intelligenter Mensch und Frau geboren zu sein." Als er zwei Jahre alt war, zog die Familie in das ostpreußische Braunsberg, wo der Vater als Postbeamter im mittleren Dienst arbeitete. Dort besuchte er das humanistische Gymnasium Hosianum. Als er 1923 in der 9. Klasse war, zog die Familie Zuse nach Hoyerswerda, wo er das Reform-Realgymnasium, das heutige Lessing-Gymnasium, absolvierte. 1928 legte er sein Abitur ab. Zuse hat sich selbst als „Bummelstudent" bezeichnet. Er studierte an der Technischen Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (heute Technische Universität Berlin) zunächst Maschinenbau, wechselte dann zur Architektur und schließlich zum Bauingenieurwesen. Zwischendurch arbeitete er fast ein Jahr lang als Reklamezeichner. Während seines Studiums wurde er Mitglied in der Berliner Studentenkorporation AV Motiv.Schon früh entdeckte er seine Vorliebe für Technik und Kunst und begann, erst...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=2622 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Konrad Zuse, Steve Wozniak, John Atanasoff, Wilfried de Beauclair, Helmut Schreyer, George Stibitz, Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann, Heinz Billing, Howard Hathaway Aiken, Wallace John Eckert, John William Mauchly, Arthur W. Burks, Clifford Berry, Maurice V. Wilkes, John Presper Eckert, Wilhelm Kämmerer, Robert J. Mical, H. Peter Hofstee. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Konrad Zuse (pronounced ; 22 June 1910 Berlin - 18 December 1995 Hünfeld near Fulda) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a punched tape). He received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring in 1964 for the Z3. His S2 computing machine is considered the first process-controlled computer, which was used to help develop the Henschel Werke Hs 293 and Hs 294, which were precursors to the modern cruise missile. It is also considered one of the first analog-to-digital converters. Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül, first published in 1948, although this was a theoretical contribution, since the language was not implemented in his lifetime and did not directly influence early languages. One of the inventors of ALGOL (Rutishauser) wrote: "The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language was undertaken in 1948 by K. Zuse. His notation was quite general, but the proposal never attained the consideration it deserved." In addition to his technical work, Zuse founded one of the earliest computer businesses on the 1st of April 1941 (Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau). This company built the Z4, which became the second commercial computer leased to ETH Zürich in 1950. Due to World War II, however, Zuse's work went largely unnoticed in the UK and the U.S.; possibly his first documented influence on a U.S. company was IBM's option on his patents in 1946. In the late 1960s, Zuse sugges...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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