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4 unusual facts about Konrad Zuse


Edward Fredkin

While Konrad Zuse's book, Calculating Space (1969), mentioned the importance of reversible computation, the Fredkin gate represented the essential breakthrough.

Horst Zuse

Horst Zuse (b. November 17, 1945 in Bad Hindelang) is a professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and the son of the noted computer scientist Konrad Zuse.

Konrad Zuse

Zuse founded another company, Zuse KG in Haunetal-Neukirchen in 1949; in 1957 the company’s head office moved to Bad Hersfeld.

Their son Horst, the first of five children, was born in November 1945.


International Student Week in Ilmenau

During the festival there are also many lectures, the most well-known speakers are until this day Robert Jungk, Joseph Weizenbaum, Helmut Schmidt and Konrad Zuse.


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