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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades a secreted away, early digital computer from Nazi-era Germany has long sat dormant within Munich's Deutsches Museum, its operations largely a mystery to historians who required a missing ...

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 ...