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[[FILE:Zuse.JPG|border|right|thumb|link=http://ei.cs.vt.edu/%7Ehistory/Zuse.html| Konrad Zuse <ref>[http://ei.cs.vt.edu/%7Ehistory/Zuse.html Konrad Zuse Biography] by [http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~janlee/Janlee.html J. A. N. Lee], September 1994</ref> ]]

'''Konrad Zuse''', (June 22, 1910 - December 18, 1995)<br/>
a German engineer and computer pioneer <ref>[[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''1990'''). ''An Interview with Konrad Zuse.'' [[ICGA Journal#13_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2]]</ref>. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing-complete Turing-complete] computer, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29 Z3], in 1941. Between 1943 and 1945 Zuse designed the high-level programming language [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl Plankalkül] <ref>[[Raúl Rojas]], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/G=ouml=ktekin:C=uuml=neyt.html Cüneyt Göktekin], [http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/%7Efractor/homepage/About_Me.html Gerald Friedland], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Kr%C3%BCger Mike Krüger], [http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/groups/ag-ti/members/scharf.html Ludmila Scharf], [http://www.feinarbeit.de/ Olaf Langmack], [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/denis-kuniss/9/792/303 Denis Kuniß] ('''2000'''). ''[http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Programme/Plankalkuel/Plankalkuel-Report/Plankalkuel-Report.htm Plankalkül: The First High-Level Programming Language and its Implementation]'', [[Free University of Berlin]]</ref> , first published about in 1948. Since 1941 Zuse worked on chess playing algorithms and formulated program routines <ref>[[Mathematician#Bauer|Friedrich L. Bauer]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=351209.351223&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=75486307&CFTOKEN=41804850 The Plankalkül of Konrad Zuse - revisited]''. in [http://www.lib.muohio.edu/multifacet/record/mu3ugb2811208 The first computers : history and architectures] edited by [[Raúl Rojas]] and [http://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/wissenschaftl-mitarbeiter/ebene1/ebene2/dr-ulf-hashagen/ Ulf Hashagen], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]</ref> in Plankalkül in [[Timeline#1945|1945]].

His [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space Calculating Space] <ref>Konrad Zuse ('''1969'''). ''Rechnender Raum''. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn. [http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Texte/Chrono/60er/Pdf/76scan.pdf pdf], ('''1970'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space Calculating Space]'', MIT Technical Translation AZT-70-164-GEMIT, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC#Project_MAC Project MAC])</ref> started the field of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics Digital Physics] in 1969, later popularized and extended by [[Edward Fredkin]], [[Jürgen Schmidhuber]] <ref>[http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html 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]]</ref> and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram Stephen Wolfram] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse#Calculating_Space Konrad Zuse | Calculating Space from Wikipedia]</ref>.

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=Plankalkül and Chess=
Images from ''Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie'' <ref>Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie, previously available from [http://zuse.zib.de/ Konrad Zuse Internet Archive]</ref>
[[FILE:Pkadjacent.JPG|none|border|text-bottom]]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl Plankalkül], two [[Squares|squares]] (v0, v1) are adjacent, if they are not equal, and both absolute [[Ranks#RankDistance|rank]] and [[Files#FileDistance|file distance]] are less or equal than one (L), structural square indices written vertically
[[FILE:ZuseChessboard.JPG|none|border|text-bottom]]
Zuse's [[8x8 Board]] with three bit file, rank coordinates: a1 = 000, 000; e2 = L00, 00L

=See also=
* [[Alan Turing]]
* [[Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum#AlanTuring|Alan Turing webcast]] from [[Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum]]
* [[History|History of Computer Chess]]

=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://ilk.uvt.nl/icga/journal/docs/References.pdf ICGA Reference Database] (pdf)</ref>
==1940 ...==
* Early Chess related documents from the [http://zuse.zib.de/ Konrad Zuse Internet Archive], [http://www.zib.de/zuse/home.php/Papers/From1940To1949 Documents - Chronological - From 1940 to 1949]
: [http://zuse.zib.de/file/1rUAfKDkirW8o3gT/cb/1b/9f/30-3019-4d1b-8bd9-2c7308d12f61/0/original/f2ff22ea81603957449831544a1a0a04.pdf Vorbereitung des Plankalküls, logische Formalismen, Schachspiel. 1941] (pdf)
: [http://zuse.zib.de/file/1rUAfKDkirW8o3gT/93/d8/7a/37-541d-405b-ba18-c8171346d9b6/0/original/2ce02f4dad0d16a98946ab30b0d248e6.pdf Vorarbeiten zum Plankalkül. Schachprogramme. 1941] (pdf)
: [http://zuse.zib.de/file/1rUAfKDkirW8o3gT/66/6e/90/b4-8ab1-481e-94b5-ab0ea036ac7b/0/original/eddbe4abee0ab6a64a83499bb55d4bea.pdf Ausarbeitungen zur Programmierung des Schachspiels. 1942] (pdf)
==1960 ...==
* [[Konrad Zuse]] ('''1969'''). ''Rechnender Raum''. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn. [http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Texte/Chrono/60er/Pdf/76scan.pdf pdf], ('''1970'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space Calculating Space]'', MIT Technical Translation AZT-70-164-GEMIT, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC#Project_MAC Project MAC]) <ref>''Konrad Zuse Der rechnende Raum''. Feature-Skript von [http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/46halbe/default_e.html Constanze Kurz] und [http://www.fritz.de/fritzinside/fritz_team/93006.html Marcus Richter], [http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/46halbe/default_e.html#node3 Hörspiel-Werkstatt], October 2006 (German) [http://46halbe.org/zuse.pdf pdf]</ref>
==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 [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMD-Forschungszentrum_Informationstechnik 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 [http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Texte/Chrono/60er/Html/0315/0315.html Gerhard Overhoff], ('''1974''') published with new comment, ('''1976''') under the title: ''The Plankalkül''. Bericht der [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMD-Forschungszentrum_Informationstechnik 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. [http://www.zib.de/zuse/English_Version/Inhalt/Texte/Chrono/40er/Pdf/0233.pdf text of the 1945 manuscript, pdf]
: Der Plankalkül, Kapitel 5, Schachtheorie]
* [[Konrad Zuse]] ('''1975'''). ''Vom Traum zür Wirklichkeit''. Mitteilungen der [[University of Dortmund|Universität Dortmund]], Sondernummer 12, pp. 4. Wiederabdruck in [[First GI Computer Chess Tournament|Erstes GI Computer-Schach-Turnier]] (ed. [[Mathematician#Zumkeller|Reinhard Zumkeller]]). Dortmund ('''1975'''), pp. 48-49.
==1980 ...==
* [[Konrad Zuse]] ('''1982'''). ''[http://www.springerlink.com/content/v4804tu748g4g2k8/ 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''. [[ICGA Journal#13_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2]]
* [[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''1990'''). ''An Interview with Konrad Zuse.'' [[ICGA Journal#13_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2]]
* [[Bob Herschberg]], [[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''1996'''). ''Konrad Zuse: An Obituary''. [[ICGA Journal#19_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1]]
* [http://www5.wittenberg.edu/academics/computerscience/facultystaff/shelburne.html Brian J. Shelburne] ('''1999'''). ''Zuse's Z3 Square Root Algorithm''. [http://www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/mathcomp/bjsdir/ZuseZ3Talk.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Mathematician#Bauer|Friedrich L. Bauer]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=351209.351223&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=75486307&CFTOKEN=41804850 The Plankalkül of Konrad Zuse - revisited]''. in [http://www.lib.muohio.edu/multifacet/record/mu3ugb2811208 The first computers : history and architectures] edited by [[Raúl Rojas]] and [http://www.deutsches-museum.de/forschung/wissenschaftl-mitarbeiter/ebene1/ebene2/dr-ulf-hashagen/ Ulf Hashagen], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
==2010 ...==
* [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Herbert_Bruderer Herbert Bruderer] ('''2011'''). ''Konrad Zuse und die ETH Zürich''. [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatik_Spektrum Informatik Spektrum], Vol. 34, No. 6 (German)
* [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Herbert_Bruderer Herbert Bruderer] ('''2012'''). ''Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz - Wer hat den Computer erfunden''. [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Oldenbourg_Verlag Oldenbourg Verlag] (German)

=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse Konrad Zuse from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.horst-zuse.homepage.t-online.de/Konrad_Zuse_index_english_html/konrad_zuse.html Konrad Zuse - Homepage] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Zuse Horst Zuse]
* [http://www.horst-zuse.homepage.t-online.de/horst-zuse-zuse-jahr-2010-html/english/index.html Zuse-Year 2010]
* [http://owpdb.mfo.de/person_detail?id=4681 Details for Konrad Zuse - Oberwolfach Photo Collection]
==ZIB==
* [http://zuse.zib.de/ Konrad Zuse Internet Archive]
* [http://zuse.zib.de/zuse Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)] by [[Raúl Rojas]]
==Bios==
* [http://www.horst-zuse.homepage.t-online.de/Konrad_Zuse_index_english_html/biography.html Konrad Zuse Biography]
* [http://ei.cs.vt.edu/%7Ehistory/Zuse.html Konrad Zuse Biography] by [http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~janlee/Janlee.html J. A. N. Lee], September 1994
* [http://www.rtd-net.de/konrad-zuse-e.html Konrad Zuse Biography] © RT-Distribution
==Schmidhuber==
* [http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html Konrad Zuse] by [[Jürgen Schmidhuber]]
* [http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html 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==
* [https://www.hnf.de/ausstellungen/rueckblick/showroom/zuse-extra-der-computererfinder-und-seine-ideen.html Zuse Extra: Der Computererfinder und seine Ideen] from [[Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum]]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/konrad-zuse/ Konrad Zuse] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
==Misc==
* [http://www.computerwoche.de/a/gmd-absehied-von-der-hardware-forschung,1194602 Experten-Workshop über Arbeiten deutscher Rechner-Spezialisten:: GMD: Abschied von der Hardware-Forschung?], July 12, 1979, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] (German) » [[SMS 201]]
* [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,701465,00.html Rassenforschung am Rechner] by [http://fu-berlin.academia.edu/HilmarSchmundt Hilmar Schmundt], [http://www.spiegel.de/ Spiegel Online], June 14, 2010
* [http://en.chessbase.com/post/from-the-z1-to-the-singularity-zuse-s-100th-birthday/9 From the Z1 to the Singularity – Zuse's 100th birthday] by [[Frederic Friedel]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], June 22, 2010
==Computers==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer) Z1 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z2_(computer) Z2 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer) Z3 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z4_(computer) Z4 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z5_(computer) Z5 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z11_(computer) Z11 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z22_(computer) Z22 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z23_(computer) Z23 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z25_(computer) Z25 (computer) from Wikipedia]
* Zuse Z3 im [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum Deutschen Museum] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich München], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: Five [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz Hertz], Demonstration of division (21/7) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation RPN]) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root sqrt](9) and sqrt(-8)
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=References=
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