konrad zuse

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born June 22, 1910, Berlin, Ger. died Dec. 18, 1995, Hünfeld German engineer. In 1941 he constructed the first fully operational program-controlled electromechanical binary calculating machine, or digital computer, called the Z3. The machine predated Howard H. Aiken's Harvard Mark I but was destroyed by bombing during World War II. In 1945 he designed Plankalkül, one of the first attempts at a high-level programming language, which later influenced the development of ALGOL