Horst Zuse
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|birth_date = {{birthdate and age|1945|11|17|df=y}}
|birth_place = Bad Hindelang, Allied-occupied Germany
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|citizenship = German
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|field = Software engineering
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|alma_mater = Technische Universität Berlin
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|known_for = History of computer science
|prizes = Sputnik Medal
(issued by the Cosmonautics Federation, 2000, in Moscow)Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Informatik, 147. Folge, 2001, Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer, ISSN 0170-6012 (Print) 1432-122X (Online)
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Horst Zuse (born 17 November 1945) is a German computer scientist.
Life
Zuse was born in 1945 as the son of the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse. He first studied electrical engineering at Technische Universität Berlin and later on completed his PhD on software metrics. Zuse worked as a Privatdozent at Technische Universität Berlin and was professor at the {{interlanguage link|Hochschule Lausitz|de}} (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
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061211025253/http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/index.html Horst Zuse's website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100418164050/http://www.epemag.com/zuse 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
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Category:People from Oberallgäu
Category:Technische Universität Berlin alumni