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Scientific & Social Program

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Overview
Guest Lecture I
Guest Lecture II
Final Program
Social Activities

A Famous Name...

We are happy and proud to announce a definite highlight of this year's Annual Meeting. Prof. Horst Zuse has agreed to present a guest lecture on The Origins of the Computer. Please read his abstract:
Many outstanding scientists and managers were necessary to get the computer to the point of development that we know today. Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) is almost unanimously accepted as the inventor of the first working, freely programmable machine using Boolean logic and operating with binary floating point numbers. He finished this machine - called Z3 - in May 1941 in his small workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

In this presentation the achievements of Charles Babbage and George Stibitz are presented, as well as the development of the secret COLOSSUS-Project (UK), Howard Aiken’s Mark I (USA), and the ENIAC (USA). Konrad Zuse's contributions to computer development are presented as well, accompanyed by many pictures and videos. It is not well-known, that Konrad Zuse founded, in 1949, a computer company, which produced 250 computers worth a total amount of 51 Million Euros.