Konrad Zuse, 85, whose Nazi-era constructions of second-hand sheet metal, glass plates, cranks and punch cards helped pioneer the modern digital computer, died of heart failure Monday in Berlin. Mr.

On May 12, 1941, Konrad Zuse presented the Z3 - the first automatic, programmable computer. It didn't survive the war. But his ideas did, giving us computing as we know it. Even for the skeptics among ...

1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Complicating Zuse's claim of priority, an air raid destroyed his ...

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 ...

In May 1941, in the third year of what Berlin called the Greater German Freedom Struggle, Konrad Zuse powered up the Z3 electromechanical computer. Built from 2,300 second-hand telephone switches and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Computers expressing everything with just '0 and 1' got deeply into people's lives and now became an unthinkable society such as a computerless life, but the original machine was made only for 75 ...

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