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Konrad Zuse
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Konrad Zuse

Entrepreneur · born June 22, 1910 · died 1995

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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.

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  1. ~31Notable work: Z31941
  2. ~35Notable work: Plankalkül1945

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