25. Konrad Zuse

1. German engineer and computer pioneer. Creator of first programmable computer Z3 from 1941.

2. Zuse designed first programming language, Plankalkül, published in 1948. Zuse’s company made first commercial computer Z4, in 1950. Zuse is a pioneer of digital physics that he introduced in a book Calculating Space, in 1969. That led to my basic hypothesis that that data processing starts with the bit. At that time, of course, I didn’t talk of “bits”, but of “yes/no status”.

3. For You Konrad Zuse I will think of all mystical smiles.

4. I was
   in your
   language
   good man
   Zuse

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