Horst Zuse (born 17 November 1945) is a German

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Life

Zuse was born in 1945 as the son of the computer pioneer

Konrad Zuse Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; ; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, List of pioneers in computer science, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programm ...

. He first studied

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Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

and later on completed his

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s. Zuse worked as a ''

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'' at Technische Universität Berlin and was professor at the ( FH), University of Applied Sciences. Besides

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, he has concentrated on the

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Books

* ''A Framework of Software Measurement'' (

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, 1997), * ''Software complexity: Measures and methods (Programming complex systems)'' (

, 1991),

References

External links

Horst Zuse's website

The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse
by Horst Zuse, an extensive and well-written historical account of Horst Zuse's father's pioneering work {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuse, Horst 1945 births Living people People from Oberallgäu Technische Universität Berlin alumni German computer scientists Historians of technology