Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Konrad Zuse
     
         The 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)