Horst Zuse
Horst Zuse | |
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Born | Bad Hindelang, Germany | November 17, 1945
Citizenship | German |
Alma mater | Berlin Institute of Technology |
Known for | History of computer science |
Awards | Sputnik Medal (issued by the Cosmonautics Federation, 2000, in Moscow)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Software engineering |
Horst Zuse (born November 17, 1945) is a German computer scientist.
Life[]
Horst Zuse was born in 1945 as the son of the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse. He first studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and later on completed his PhD on software metrics. Horst Zuse worked as a Privatdozent at the Technical University of Berlin and was professor at the (FH), University of Applied Sciences. Besides software engineering, he has concentrated on the history of computer science.
Books[]
- A Framework of Software Measurement (Walter de Gruyter, 1997), ISBN 3-11-015587-7
- Software complexity: Measures and methods (Programming complex systems) (Walter de Gruyter, 1991), ISBN 0-89925-640-6
References[]
- ^ Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Informatik, 147. Folge, 2001, Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, ISSN 0170-6012 (Print) 1432-122X (Online)
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
Categories:
- 1945 births
- Living people
- People from Oberallgäu
- Technical University of Berlin alumni
- German computer scientists
- Historians of technology