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* Konrad Zuse: The Computer – My Life, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-56453-5, ISBN 0-387-56453-5
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While von Neumann is most often credited with the design of the stored-program computer because of his design of EDVAC, others before him, such as Konrad Zuse, had suggested and implemented similar ideas.
In 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first fully functional and programmable computer using electromechanical parts.
In 1938, Konrad Zuse of Berlin completed the Z1, the first mechanical binary programmable computer, this was however unreliable in operation.
Working in isolation in Germany, Konrad Zuse started construction in 1936 of his first Z-series calculators featuring memory and ( initially limited ) programmability.
In two 1936 patent applications, Konrad Zuse also anticipated that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data — the key insight of what became known as the von Neumann architecture, first implemented in the British SSEM of 1948.
Konrad Zuse married Gisela Brandes in January 1945-employing a carriage, himself dressed in tailcoat and top hat and with Gisela in a wedding veil, for Zuse attached importance to a " noble ceremony ".
The Konrad Zuse Medal of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, and the Konrad Zuse Medal of the Zentralverband des Deutschen Baugewerbes ( Central Association of German Construction ), are both named after Zuse.
The movie Tron: Legacy, which revolves around a world inside a computer system, features a character named Zuse, presumably in honour of Konrad Zuse.
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* Clemens Kieser: „ Ich bin zu faul zum Rechnen “ – Konrad Zuses Computer Z22 im Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe.
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Crankshafts were also described by Konrad Kyeser ( d. 1405 ), Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) and a Dutch " farmer " by the name Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest in 1592.
Goebbels had four siblings: Hans ( 1893 – 1947 ), Konrad ( 1895 – 1949 ), Elisabeth ( 1901 – 1915 ) and Maria ( 1910 – 1949 ; married to the German filmmaker Max W. Kimmich ).
* 1963 – The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
Konrad Adenauer was born as the third of five children of Johann Konrad Adenauer ( 1833 – 1906 ) and his wife Helene ( née Scharfenberg ; 1849 – 1919 ) in Cologne, Rhenish Prussia.
* 15 March 1951 – Konrad Adenauer becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Chancellor when the Allies allow this post to be revived.
The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU / CSU, and the West, 1949 – 1966 ( 2004 ) 250 pages excerpt and text search
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* The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse – By Prof. Horst Zuse ( K. Zuse's son ); an extensive and well-written historical account
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): Panel Discussion 1953-1989: Germany on the way to unity and freedom on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the uprising in East Germany on 17 June 2003 at the Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-937731-00-8
* Foe into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt, translated by Gabriele Annan, Palgrave Macmillan, 1982, ISBN 0-312-29692-4
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Zuse also proposed, but did not complete, carefully rounded floating – point arithmetic that would have included ±∞ and NaNs, anticipating features of IEEE Standard floating – point by four decades.
* Paul Janositz: Informatik und Konrad Zuse: Der Pionier des Computerbaus in Europa – Das verkannte Genie aus Adlershof.
* 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
* May 12 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
A single program was called by Zuse a Rechenplan ( i. e. computation plan ) and already in 1944 Zuse envisioned a device that should read and then automatically translate a mathematical formulation of a program into machine readable punched film stock – a device which he called Planfertigungsgerät ( i. e. plan construction device ).
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