Konrad Zuse
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse 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.
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- Born in
- Wilmersdorf
- Educated at
- Technische Universität BerlinCollegium HosianumKonrad-Zuse-Gymnasium Hoyerswerda
- Awards
- 🏆 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art🏆 Wilhelm Exner Medal🏆 Werner von Siemens Ring🏆 Cothenius Medal🏆 Ernst Reuter Medal
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1910
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