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This volume continues the story of an engineer through the second half of the twentieth century, in Britain, Germany, Africa and worldwide. It sees engineering, life and travels from many perspectives: as a Cambridge lecturer and don, a consultant, an early exponent of computers in engineering,an evangelist for CADCAM, a high-tech entrepreneur, a company director, and as a family man.
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Kenneth Warner
reviewed An Engineer In Peace And War - A Technical And Social History - Volume Ii - 1952-2008 on May 22, 2017
An Engineer In Peace And War - A Technical And Social History - Volume Ii - 1952-2008
Konrad Zuse was a german civil engineer who, during WWII, essentially invented the computer & some programming theory in parallel with similar inventions from the Allied nations.
He gives some focus to the effects of the war on his work; especially the prototypes destroyed due to it. He also spent a good amount of time talking about a theory of programming languages. He designed a language called the "plan calculus" that is more thoroughly grounded in boolean algebra (instead of numeric operations).
Overall, the book is a fascinating look at Zuse. It's both amazing (in the 1930's, he theorized that one day his computing machines would be able to play chess, and win!) and sad (even up to his death in 1995, some of his ideas received short thrift).
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