The Origins of the Computer - Talk by Prof Dr Horst Zuse

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Origins of the Computer - Talk by Prof Dr Horst Zuse
 
 Many outstanding scientists and managers were necessary to get the
 computer to the point of development that we know today. Konrad Zuse
 (1910-1995) is almost unanimously accepted as the inventor of the first
 working, freely programmable machine using Boolean logic and with
 binary floating point numbers. He finished this Machine - called Z3 -
 in May 1941 in his small workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
 
 This presentation will describe the achievements of Charles Babbage,
 the development of the secret COLOSSUS-Project, Howard Aiken s Mark I
 and the ENIAC.
 
 Konrad Zuse s contributions to computer development are presented as
 well, with many intriguing pictures and videos. It is not well known
 that Konrad Zuse founded, in 1949, a computer company that produced 251
 computers of a value of 51 million euros. It was the first company to
 produce computers in a commercial way.
 
 Horst Zuse was born in Hindelang (Bavaria in Germany) and received a
 PhD in computer science from the Technische Universitaet (TUB) of
 Berlin in 1985. He has been a senior research scientist at TUB since
 1975. His research interests are information retrieval systems,
 software engineering, software metrics, computer history and computer
 architectures.
 
 He has published several books including  Software Complexity -
 Measures and Methods  and  A Framework for Software Measurement  (De
 Gruyter Publisher). Zuse has received his  habilitation  in 1998 and is
 a Professor with the University of Applied Sciences in Senftenberg
 since 2006.
 
 Place: Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
 
 Starting date: 30-Mar-2012 09:00 (CET)
 
 Duration: 45 min.
 
 (This talk is part of the EGI Community Forum 2012.)


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 Ludger Palm