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Konrad Zuse, (June 22, 1910 - December 18, 1995) 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.

His Calculating Space started the field of Digital Physics in 1969, later popularized and extended by Edward Fredkin, Jürgen Schmidhuber and Stephen Wolfram.

=Plankalkül and Chess= Images from Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie 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=

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)

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]


 * 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 (2011). Konrad Zuse und die ETH Zürich. Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 34, No. 6  (German)
 * Herbert Bruderer (2012). Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz - Wer hat den Computer erfunden. Oldenbourg Verlag (German)

=External Links=
 * Konrad Zuse from Wikipedia
 * Konrad Zuse - Homepage by Horst Zuse
 * Zuse-Year 2010
 * Details for Konrad Zuse - Oberwolfach Photo Collection

ZIB

 * Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
 * Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) by Raúl Rojas

Bios

 * Konrad Zuse Biography
 * Konrad Zuse Biography by J. A. N. Lee, September 1994
 * Konrad Zuse Biography © RT-Distribution

Schmidhuber

 * 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

Museums

 * Zuse Extra: Der Computererfinder und seine Ideen from Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
 * Konrad Zuse from The Computer History Museum

Misc

 * Experten-Workshop über Arbeiten deutscher Rechner-Spezialisten:: GMD: Abschied von der Hardware-Forschung?, July 12, 1979, Computerwoche (German) » SMS 201
 * Rassenforschung am Rechner by Hilmar Schmundt, Spiegel Online, June 14, 2010
 * From the Z1 to the Singularity – Zuse's 100th birthday by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, June 22, 2010

Computers

 * Z1 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z2 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z3 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z4 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z5 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z11 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z22 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z23 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Z25 (computer) from Wikipedia
 * Zuse Z3 im Deutschen Museum München, YouTube Video
 * Five Hertz, Demonstration of division (21/7) (RPN) and sqrt(9) and sqrt(-8)

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