Konrad Zuse
1910 – 1995 · Germany · Computing, Engineering
Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.
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- Alan Turing
1912 – 1954 · Mathematics, Computing
Zuse's Z3 and Turing's model converge on programmable general computation.
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