Konrad Zuse: About the Author








The
Life and Work of Konrad Zuse (by Horst Zuse)
About the Author








Horst
Zuse was born on November 17, 1945. He received his Diploma degree in electrical
engineering from the Technische Universität in 1973, and a Ph.D. degree in computer
science from the Technische Universität of Berlin in 1985. Since 1975 Horst has been a senior research scientist with the
Technische Universität Berlin. His research interests are information retrieval systems,
software engineering, software metrics, and the measurement of the quality of software
during the software life-cycle.



From
1987 to 1988 Horst was for one year with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research in Yorktown
Heights. In 1991 he published the book: Horst Zuse: Software Complexity - Measures and
Methods (De Gruyter Publisher). From 1989 till 1992 he was with the ESPRIT II Project
2384 METKIT (Metric-Educational-Toolkit) of the European Commission. Since 1990 he has
given several times a year on the subject of software measures for people of the industry
within the scope of DECollege and ORACLE. He has also given many presentations and
seminars about software measurement on conferences in US and Canada. Now, his research interests are validation of
software measures, prediction models, and standardizing measurement principles. From
August 1994 to December 1994 he was invited as a researcher by the Gesellschaft für
Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) in St. Augustin in Germany. In 1998 the book: Horst
Zuse: A Framework for Software Measurement (DeGruyter Publisher) was published. From
February to May 1998 he was a Visiting Professor with the University of Southwest
Louisiana in Lafayette / Louisiana / USA. On December 9, 1998 he received the habilitation
(Privatdozent) in the area of Praktische Informatik (Practical Computer Science)
by the department of computer science at the Technische Universität Berlin.








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