German computer scientist and engineer (1910 - 1995)
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He built the world's first programmable computer in 1941, while the rest of the computing world didn't know it was happening. Konrad Zuse's Z3 ran in Berlin as war closed in, and by the time anyone outside Germany learned what he'd done, the revolution had already started without him.
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer who began building computers in the late 1930s, funding the early machines with family money and commercial work. In May 1941, his Z3 became operational — the first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, though the achievement went almost entirely unnoticed outside Germany during the war. After 1939, the Nazi government supplied resources, and he kept working: the S2 became the first process control computer, and in 1941 he founded one of the earliest computer businesses, eventually producing the Z4, the world's first commerci…
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Only too often the inventor is the idealist who, like Mephisto, tries to improve the world, only to be crushed by harsh realities.
The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!
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