PhilosophersKonrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse
Engineer: the first to propose, as early as 1967, that the universe is computed by a computer, perhaps a cellular automaton.
1910 · 1995 GermanyBerlin (Germany)
Life
German engineer (1910-1995), a pioneer of computing. In 1941 he put into service the Z3, often presented as the first working programmable computer, and from 1943 to 1945 he designed Plankalkül, the first high-level programming language. In 1967, then in his book "Rechnender Raum" (1969), he proposed that the universe itself is computed, like a cellular automaton: the starting point of "digital physics".
Main works
1969
Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space)
The universe could be a cellular automaton, whose state is computed step by step.