Konrad ZuseThe designer of the first programming language, {Plankalkul}, 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 (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.html)}. ["Konrad Zuse: Mein Leben" (My Life), published 1956]. ["Konrad Zuse: The Computer my Life, Springer, 1993]. (1999-02-18)