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)