Author: Peter Scharf
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0070551685
Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0070551685
Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill
It's Bad for Ya
Computer-Age Parenting
Konrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age He created the first fully automated program controlled freely programmable computer using binary floating point calculation It was operational in 1941 He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War with bombs falling all around and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967 Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style full of phantastic ideas but also gifted with a powerful analytical mind Single handedly he developed one of the first programming languages the Plan Calculus including features copied only decades later in other languages He wrote numerous books and articles and won many honors and awards This is his autobiography written in an engagingly lively and pleasant style full of anecdotes reminiscences and philosophical asides It traces his life from his childhood in East Prussia through tense wartime experiences and hard times building up his business after the war to a ripe old age and well earned celebrity Personal computers didn t appear until the 1970s but as early as 1941 the first automated program controlled and freely programmable computer was up and running The Computer My Life is the story of Konrad Zuse and his revolutionary invention the computer or mechanical brain as he liked to call it which Zuse built in his parents living room Zuse writes his autobiography simply and directly to be accessible to a wide audience of non technophiles and includes hand drawn diagrams of computer functions as well as cartoons from his younger years when he dreamed of becoming an artist The book also includes appendices with detailed technical information for the more technical reader
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