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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 1935, Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse has spent his entire career developing a series of automatic calculators, the first of their kind in the world: the Z1, Z2, Z3, S1, S2, and Z4. He accomplished ...

Almost 70 years after the invention of the world’s first programmable, fully automatic computer, the son of electronics pioneer Konrad Zuse unveiled on Saturday an exact replica of his father’s ...

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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 ...

On May 12, 1941, 75 years ago, the world's first computer was released: The legendary Z3 was the ultra heavy and bulky grandfather of the Apple Watch. Revisit the vintage models of the machine that ...

The Corkman Percy Ludgate was an extraordinary genius. In a 1909 paper to the Royal Dublin Society, he described the world’s second general purpose mechanical computer. He worked unaware of Charles ...

1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Because Zuse designed and built his computer inside Nazi Germany, which ...