How is it that someone created and built the world’s first programmable computer and yet is only a footnote in history? Konrad Zuse had trouble finding his niche in life. As a young teen he ...

Key Points Although Zuse was a talented artist, he opted to study civil engineering at the Technical College (Technischen Hochschule) in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1935 following his graduation, he was ...

75 years ago today, a German scientist named Konrad Zuse changed computing forever ... as the world’s first entirely automatic computer controlled by programs. The Z3 revolutionized computing.

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 ...

Z3, a computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse, was the world’s first fully-functional programmable computer that was Turing complete. Zuse (pronounced Tsoo-zuh) was born on June 22 ...

The first electronic stored-program computer is the Manchester Baby, but Konrad Zuse's earlier Z3 could store programs on tape -- it just wasn't electronic. Other obscure machines, like the ...

Konrad Zuse created what became known as the first programmable computer, the Z1, in 1936 in his parent's living room in Berlin. He assembled metal plates, pins, and old film, creating a machine ...

When the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse built the world’s first programmable computer in war time Berlin, it performed floating point arithmetic at a clock speed of between 5 and 10 Hz. The ...

Your timeline (“Milestones in scientific computing” Nature 440, 399–405; 200610.1038/440399a) starts in 1946 with ENIAC, “widely thought of as the first electronic digital computer”.