Horst Zuse

Horst Zuse
Born	(1945-11-17) November 17, 1945 Bad Hindelang, Allied-occupied Germany
Citizenship	German
Alma mater	Berlin Institute of Technology
Known for	History of computer science
Awards	Sputnik Medal (issued by the Cosmonautics Federation, 2000, in Moscow)
Scientific career
Fields	Software engineering

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. He first studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and later on completed his PhD on software metrics. Horst Zuse worked as a Privatdozent at the Technical University of Berlin and was professor at the Hochschule Lausitz (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

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