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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.
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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.
Zuse also claimed to have designed the first higher-level programming language, which he named Plankalkül, in 1945 ( published in 1948 ) although it was implemented for the first time in 2000 by a team around Raúl Rojas at the Free University of Berlin — five years after Zuse died.
Zuse was also noted for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process-controlled computer.
In 1967, Zuse also suggested that the universe itself is running on a cellular automaton or similar computational structure ( digital physics ); in 1969, he published the book Rechnender Raum ( translated into English as Calculating Space ).
In 1936 Konrad Zuse also anticipated in two patent applications that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data.
During the festival there are also many lectures, the most well-known speakers are until this day Robert Jungk, Joseph Weizenbaum and Konrad Zuse.
Zuse and proposed
Zuse proposed that the universe is being computed by some sort of cellular automaton or other discrete computing machinery, challenging the long-held view that some physical laws are continuous by nature.
Zuse and did
In 1948 Zuse published a paper about the Plankalkül in the " Archiv der Mathematik " but still did not attract much feedback-for a long time to come programming a computer would only be thought of as programming with machine code.
Zuse and complete
The first actual implementation of a Turing-complete machine appeared in 1941: the program-controlled Z3 of Konrad Zuse, but the first machine explicitly designed to be Turing complete and widely appreciated as being universal was the 1946 ENIAC.
Zuse and floating
Konrad Zuse, architect of the first programmable computer, which used 22-bit binary floating point.
* Konrad Zuse in Berlin completes his Z1 computer, a floating point binary mechanical calculator with limited programmability, using Boolean logic and reading instructions from perforated 35 mm film.
Zuse and –
* 1910 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer and inventor, invented the Z3 computer ( d. 1995 )
Konrad Zuse (; 1910 – 1995 ) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer.
* Konrad Zuse: The Computer – My Life, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-56453-5, ISBN 0-387-56453-5
* Paul Janositz: Informatik und Konrad Zuse: Der Pionier des Computerbaus in Europa – Das verkannte Genie aus Adlershof.
* Jürgen Alex: Zur Entstehung des Computers – von Alfred Tarski zu Konrad Zuse.
* The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse – By Prof. Horst Zuse ( K. Zuse's son ); an extensive and well-written historical account
* 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 ).
* 1981 Konrad Zuse – Civil Engineer and Computer Scientist
* Konrad Zuse ( 1910 – 1995 ), computer scientist
Zuse and have
While Zuse never became a member of the Nazi Party, he is not known to have expressed any doubts or qualms about working for the Nazi war effort.
Zuse and anticipating
* Konrad Zuse submits patents in Germany based on his Z1 computer design anticipating von Neumann architecture.
Zuse and features
The movie Tron: Legacy, which revolves around a world inside a computer system, features a character named Zuse, presumably in honour of Konrad Zuse.
Zuse and by
The first programmable computer built by Konrad Zuse used binary notation for numbers.
However, Turing-completeness was never considered by Zuse ( who had practical applications in mind ) and only demonstrated in 1998 ( see History of computing hardware ).
A request by his co-worker Helmut Schreyer — who had helped Zuse build the Z3 prototype in 1938 — for government funding for an electronic successor to the Z3 was denied as " strategically unimportant ".
Zuse believed that these machines had been captured by occupying Soviet troops in 1945.
Heinz Rutishauser, one of the inventors of ALGOL, wrote: " The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language was undertaken in 1948 by K. Zuse.
Other computers, all numbered with a leading Z, up to Z43, were built by Zuse and his company.
Notwithstanding, the idea of programming language existed earlier ; the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer was Plankalkül, developed for the German Z3 by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945.
Plankalkül (, " Plan Calculus ") is a computer language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945.
:" The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language was undertaken in 1948 by K. Zuse.
* The " Plankalkül " of Konrad Zuse: A Forerunner of Today's Programming Languages by Friedrich L. Bauer
* The German Z3 ( shown working in May 1941 ) was designed by Konrad Zuse.
His experience with programming the ENIAC and its successors led him to create Short Code ( see " The UNIVAC SHORT CODE "), the first programming language actually used on a computer ( predated by Zuse ’ s conceptual Plankalkul ).
The hypothesis that the universe is a digital computer was pioneered by Konrad Zuse in his book Rechnender Raum ( translated into English as Calculating Space ).
The computer could be, for example, a huge cellular automaton ( Zuse 1967 ), or a universal Turing machine, as suggested by Schmidhuber ( 1997 ), who pointed out that there exists a very short program that can compute all possible computable universes in an asymptotically optimal way.
The first version of Doxygen borrowed code from an early version of DOC ++ ( developed by Roland Wunderling and Malte Zöckler at Zuse Institute Berlin ); later, the Doxygen code was rewritten by Dimitri van Heesch.
Digital philosophy is a direction in philosophy and cosmology advocated by certain mathematicians and theoretical physicists, e. g., Gregory Chaitin, Edward Fredkin, Stephen Wolfram, and Konrad Zuse ( see his Calculating Space ).
* Z3 — pioneering computer developed by Konrad Zuse in 1941, it was destroyed by bombardment in 1944.
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