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 ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Because Zuse designed and built 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 ...

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 ...

This year's Tony Sale Award, presented by the Computer Conservation Society (CCS), has been shared by the restoration of two IBM 1401 business computers from the 1950s at the Computer History Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...