The Computer - My Life

The Computer - My Life by Konrad Zuse.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuse, Konrad (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Edition:1st ed. 1993.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Computers.
Philology.
Linguistics.
Computer hardware.
Engineering.
Software engineering.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Ancestors and parents — Early childhood memories — School days — Metropolis — Abitur
  • 2 Studies (not without detours and by-ways) and general studies — First inventions — The Akademischer Verein Motiv — Student life between science and politics
  • 3 The early years of the computer (and a digression on its prehistory) — Colleagues remember — From mechanics to electromechanics — Schreyer’s electronic computing machine — First outside contacts — Thoughts on the future
  • 4 Outbreak of the war and (first) call-up — Structural engineer in aircraft construction — The Z2 and Z3 — Second call-up — Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau, Berlin — The first process computer
  • 5 Origins of the Z4 — News from the United States — Attempt at a Ph.D. dissertation — Computing machine for logic operations — Final months of the war in Berlin — The evacuation — Z4 completed in Göttingen — Final war days in the Allgäu
  • 6 End of the war — Refugees in Hinterstein — The Plankalkül — The computing universe — Automation and self-reproducing systems — A logarithmic computing machine — Computer development in Germany and the United States — Move to Hopferau near Füssen — The mill of the Patent Office
  • 7 The Zuse-Ingenieurbüro, Hopferau bei Füssen — First business partners: IBM and Remington Rand — The first pipelining design — Founding of ZUSE KG in Neukirchen — The Z4 in the ETH in Zurich — The computer in Europe: taking stock — Lost opportunities — The first German contract: the Z5
  • 8 The partners leave — Computing machine for land use zoning — Electronics gains acceptance — First funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft — Losing one’s way (and possibly a lost opportunity) — The array processor — Custom work for geodesists — The Graphomat Z64 — Growth and crisis of ZUSE KG — The end
  • 9 Free for science (again) — Honors — A look to the future
  • Appendices
  • 1. From Forms to Program Control
  • 2. Construction of Devices
  • 3. On Computer Architecture
  • 4. On the Plan Calculus
  • 5. Lecture on the Occasion of the Award of the Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Berlin (Extract)
  • 6. The Computer Did Not Fall from Heaven
  • Notes
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Computer Index.

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