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Chapters: Alan Turing, John Von Neumann, Steve Wozniak, Seymour Cray, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Butler Lampson, John Vincent Atanasoff, Steve Jobs, Alan Kotok, Bernard Marshall Gordon, W. Daniel Hillis, Maurice Wilkes, Donald B. Gillies, Gordon Bell, William Goddard, Peter Samson, John L. Hennessy, Steve Furber, David Patterson, Charles P. Thacker, Stan Frankel, John Pinkerton, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Daniel Kottke, David May, Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev, John Cocke, Boris Babaian, Justin Rattner, Harry Huskey, Masatoshi Shima, James R. Goodman, Mark Carlson, John Fairclough, Steve Chen, Bob Colwell, Robert J. Mical, Michael Dhuey, Robert Brunner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 239. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which lead to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. In 1986, he acquire...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7412236 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wernher Von Braun, Konrad Zuse, Rudolf Hell, Walter H. Schottky, Hugo Junkers, Carl Von Linde, Carl Auer Von Welsbach, Carl Bosch, Fritz Todt, Walter Reppe, Oskar Von Miller, Fritz Leonhardt, Berthold Leibinger, Jörg Schlaich, Karl Küpfmüller, Jonathan Zenneck, Karl Ziegler, Hans Scherenberg, Walter Bruch, Walther Bauersfeld, Carl Adam Petri, Ludwig Bölkow, Artur Fischer, Rudolf Schulten, Otto Bayer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, astronautics engineer and space architect, becoming one of the leading figures in the creation of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. He was a member of the Nazi party and a commissioned SS officer. Wernher von Braun was said to be the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century. In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's pre-war rocket development programme, responsible for the design and realization of the deadly V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some of his rocket team were taken to the United States as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip. In 1955, ten years after entering the country, von Braun became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Von Braun worked on the US Army intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated by NASA, under which he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. According to one NASA source, he is "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history. His crowning achievement ... was to lead the development of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33783 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Konrad Zuse, Wilhelm Pieck, Johannes Dieckmann, Liste Der Ehrenbürger Von Hoyerswerda, Jürgen Von Woyski, Jekaterina Georgijewna Ponomarjowa. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Konrad Zuse (pronounced ; 22 June 1910 Berlin - 18 December 1995 Hünfeld near Fulda) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a punched tape). He received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring in 1964 for the Z3. His S2 computing machine is considered the first process-controlled computer, which was used to help develop the Henschel Werke Hs 293 and Hs 294, which were precursors to the modern cruise missile. It is also considered one of the first analog-to-digital converters. Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül, first published in 1948, although this was a theoretical contribution, since the language was not implemented in his lifetime and did not directly influence early languages. One of the inventors of ALGOL (Rutishauser) wrote: "The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language was undertaken in 1948 by K. Zuse. His notation was quite general, but the proposal never attained the consideration it deserved." In addition to his technical work, Zuse founded one of the earliest computer businesses on the 1st of April 1941 (Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau). This company built the Z4, which became the second commercial computer leased to ETH Zürich in 1950. Due to World War II, however, Zuse's work went largely unnoticed in the UK and the U.S.; possibly his first documented influence on a U.S. company was IBM's option on his patents in 1946. In the late 1960s, Zuse suggested the concept of a Calculating Space (a computation-based universe). There is a replica of the Z3, as well as the Z4, in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin i...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Konrad Zuse, Henning Von Berg, Fritz Todt, Albert Fink, Fritz Leonhardt, Hannskarl Bandel, Walter Hohmann, Jörg Schlaich, Theodor Becker, Franz Dischinger, Christian Otto Mohr, Johann Georg Specht, Carl Culmann, Carl Friedrich Meerwein, Robert Gerwig, Ernst Dircksen. Excerpt:Albert Fink Albert Fink (October 27, 1827 April 3, 1897) was a German civil engineer. He is best known for his railroad bridge designs, and devising the Fink truss. Born in Lauterbach, Hesse , Germany, he studied architecture and engineering at the Polytechnic school in Darmstadt, and graduated in 1848. In 1849 he emigrated to the United States. He soon found work with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as a draftsman, and became chief office assistant to Benjamin H. Latrobe . In this position he oversaw the design and construction of buildings and bridges. With the construction of the road between Cumberland, Maryland and Wheeling, West Virginia (then in the state of Virginia ). Fink supervised much of the design, and oversaw the building of some of the first iron bridges in the nation, including that over the Monongahela River in Fairmont, West Virginia . It was this bridge that first implemented his design of the Fink truss, and was in fact in its time the longest iron railroad bridge. With the completion of this portion of road, the section between Grafton and Parkersburg, West Virginia was commenced, and many of the bridges and tunnels of this route were also supervised by him. He was also during this time a consulting engineer of the Norfolk and Petersburg railway, which was at the time building the bridge at Norfolk, Virginia . He left the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1857 to become the assistant of George McLeod, chief engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad . Under them he built numerous ... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Konrad Zuse, Wilhelm Schickard, Hans Peter Luhn, Matthias Ettrich, Ian Murdock, Bernd Sturmfels, Carl Adam Petri, Daniel Karrenberg, Andy Bechtolsheim, Karl Steinbuch, Werner Koch, Rudolf Bayer. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Konrad Zuse (22 juin 1910 - 18 décembre 1995) est un ingénieur allemand et l'un des pionniers de l'informatique. Encore largement méconnu, il est l'un des pères de l'informatique en ayant développé le premier calculateur électromécanique Z1 en 1938. La plus grande de ses réussites fut peut-être d'avoir réalisé le premier ordinateur du monde le Z3 en 1941. Celui-ci fut détruit en 1944 par les bombardements alliés et servait à produire des calculs pour une usine aéronautique allemande. La démarche de Zuse fut davantage celle d'un ingénieur isolé recherchant une solution pratique, que celle d'un théoricien. Ceci le conduisit à être effectivement le premier programmeur d'un calculateur automatique physique. Il le conçut sur la base du Système binaire inventé par Gottfried Leibniz. Il est probable qu'il connaissait les travaux de George Boole sur l'algèbre binaire (Booléene) et de Claude Shannon qui proposait d'appliquer cette algèbre aux relais téléphoniques afin d'obtenir des machines logiques. Zuse eut des résultats semblables aux travaux de Charles Babbage alors qu'il ne connut (voir discussion) ses travaux qu'après la fin de la guerre. Bien qu'il eut l'idée d'en intégrer dans son Z4, il ne put recevoir des nazis des tubes à vides trop précieux. Ce fait et son isolement pendant la guerre laissent penser qu'il a d'ailleurs tenu ces derniers dans l'ignorance de la portée de ses projets, car en d'autres circonstances les nazis ont fait une utilisation intensive des balbutieme...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Konrad Zuse, Wernher von Braun, Walter Bruch, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Hugo Junkers, Rudolf Hell, Carl Bosch, Carl von Linde, Berthold Leibinger, Hermann Röchling, Oskar von Miller, Fritz Todt, Karl Küpfmüller, Walter Reppe, Jonathan Zenneck, Karl Ziegler, Fritz Leonhardt, Jörg Schlaich, Walter Schottky, Artur Fischer, Ludwig Bölkow, Wolfgang Gaede, Karl Winnacker, Eveline Gottzein, Walther Bauersfeld, Fritz Peter Schäfer, Dieter Oesterhelt, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring, Siegfried Meurer, Rudolf Schulten, Carl Adam Petri, Hans Scherenberg, Otto Bayer,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (* 22. Juni 1910 in Berlin; † 18. Dezember 1995 in Hünfeld bei Fulda) war ein deutscher Bauingenieur, Erfinder und Unternehmer (Zuse KG). Mit seiner Entwicklung der Z3 im Jahre 1941 baute er den ersten vollautomatischen, programmgesteuerten und frei programmierten, in binärer Gleitpunktrechnung arbeitenden Computer der Welt. Konrad Zuse wurde am 22. Juni 1910 in Berlin als Sohn von Maria und Emil Zuse geboren. Er hatte eine ältere Schwester, über die er meinte, „sie hatte das Pech, in der damaligen Zeit als intelligenter Mensch und Frau geboren zu sein." Als er zwei Jahre alt war, zog die Familie in das ostpreußische Braunsberg, wo der Vater als Postbeamter im mittleren Dienst arbeitete. Dort besuchte er das humanistische Gymnasium Hosianum. Als er 1923 in der 9. Klasse war, zog die Familie Zuse nach Hoyerswerda, wo er das Reform-Realgymnasium, das heutige Lessing-Gymnasium, absolvierte. 1928 legte er sein Abitur ab. Zuse hat sich selbst als „Bummelstudent" bezeichnet. Er studierte an der Technischen Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (heute Technisch...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=2622 ... Read more

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Die Rechenmaschinen Z1 und Z3 von Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) haben das Computerzeitalter mitbegründet. Dieses Buch würdigt in sechs Beiträgen den großen Pionier der Informatik und seine genialen Erfindungen. Friedrich L. Bauer analysiert und bewertet im ersten Kapitel Fakten und Legenden zu Leben und Werk Zuses. Anschließend wird erstmals die Architektur der Rechenmaschinen detailliert beschrieben, wobei die Verwandtschaft mit modernen Entwürfen überrascht. Besonders aufschlußreich, ja spannend, ist das sorgfältig recherchierte und dokumentierte Kapitel zu Zuses gescheiterten Versuchen der Patentanmeldung, reflektiert es doch sowohl ein Stück Lebens- als auch Computer- und Zeitgeschichte. In einem abschließenden Kapitel wird eine über das Internet zugängliche Java-Simulation der Z3 vorgestellt. ... Read more

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Konrad Zuse ( 22 June 1910 Berlin - 18 December 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a punched tape). He received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring in 1964 for the Z3. Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül, first published in 1948, although this was a theoretical contribution, since the language was not implemented in his lifetime and did not directly influence early languages. One of the inventors of ALGOL (Rutishauser) wrote: "The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language was undertaken in 1948 by K. Zuse. His notation was quite general, but the proposal never attained the consideration it deserved." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2586 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Reviews the history of the discipline and its concepts, and profiles contributors in the field. The impact of computers on society is explored, with examples in literature and film to illustrate and support trends. ... Read more