Horst Zuse | |
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| Born | November 17, 1945 |
| Citizenship | German |
| Alma mater | Berlin Institute of Technology |
| Known for | History of computer science |
| Awards | Sputnik Medal (issued by the Cosmonautics Federation, 2000, in Moscow) [1] |
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| Fields | Software engineering |
Horst Zuse (born November 17, 1945) is a German computer scientist.
Horst Zuse was born in 1945 as the son of the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse. He first studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and later on completed his PhD on software metrics. Horst Zuse worked as a Privatdozent at the Technical University of Berlin and was professor at the Hochschule Lausitz (FH), University of Applied Sciences. Besides software engineering, he has concentrated on the history of computer science.
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.
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