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 Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-c ...

. He first studied electrical engineering at the

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and later on completed his PhD on

software metric In software engineering and development, a software metric is a standard of measure of a degree to which a software system or process possesses some property. Even if a metric is not a measurement (metrics are functions, while measurements are t ...

s. Horst Zuse worked as a

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at the Technical University of Berlin and was professor at the

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( FH), University of Applied Sciences. Besides software engineering, he has concentrated on the

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Books

* ''A Framework of Software Measurement'' (

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, 1997), * ''Software complexity: Measures and methods (Programming complex systems)'' (

, 1991),

References

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuse, Horst 1945 births Living people People from Oberallgäu Technical University of Berlin alumni German computer scientists Historians of technology