{"id":507,"date":"2011-04-05T00:23:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/?p=507"},"modified":"2011-04-12T01:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:35:34","slug":"turing-vs-zuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Turing vs. Zuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was always taught that the architecture of the modern computer had been invented by the British <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uzine.net\/article159.html\">Alan Turing<\/a>, and the (Hungarian-)American John von Neumann. Now I am ready to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsia.ch\/~juergen\/zuse.html\">Konrad Zuse<\/a>, the misunderstood German engineer, who was a competitor of Turing, and came up with the series of Z computers. Zuse took refuge in Switzerland during World War II, and managed to complete his Z4 in Z\u00fcrich, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethz.ch\/\">ETH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was always taught that the architecture of the modern computer had been invented by the British Alan Turing, and the (Hungarian-)American John von Neumann. Now I am ready to learn about Konrad Zuse, the misunderstood German engineer, who was a competitor of Turing, and came up with the series of Z computers. Zuse took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}