The designer of the first progrAMming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional progrAM-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany. Biography . ["Konrad Zuse: Mein Leben" (My Life), published 1956]. ["Konrad Zuse: The Computer my Life, Springer, 1993]. (1999-02-18)