Computing didn't start with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In fact some claim it began in the 1930s in Germany, with a giant letter Z - as in Zuse, specifically Konrad Zuse. There's strong evidence that ...

Few fields have grown as rapidly as computing and computers have. If you are lucky to know aged people who’ve worked in the field, they might well tell you about the size and computing power of the ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack ...

For decades a secreted away, early digital computer from Nazi-era Germany has long sat dormant within Munich's Deutsches Museum, its operations largely a mystery to historians who required a missing ...

Since 1935, Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse has spent his entire career developing a series of automatic calculators, the first of their kind in the world: the Z1, Z2, Z3, S1, S2, and Z4. He accomplished ...

The inventor of the computer was a little known German engineer named Konrad Zuse, according to a new museum exhibition that seeks to revive the unsung hero’s notoriety. Six museums around the country ...

June 22 would be the 100th birthday of German tech genius Konrad Zuse, a pioneer who invented the world's first programmable computer. His Z3 model was used in World War II; his Z4 is in Munich's ...

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Berlin-It's hard to imagine today, but Berlin-Kreuzberg was, along with Bletchley Park near London and Los Alamos in New Mexico, the site of pioneering computer research that laid the groundwork for ...