Konrad Zuse Dead

Built the Z3 (1941) — the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer — in his parents' Berlin living room, isolated from the wartime work happening elsewhere.\n\nAlso designed Plankalkül (1945), the first high-level language, and founded one of the first computer companies. The originals were destroyed by bombing; his Z1 reconstruction sits in the Deutsches Technikmuseum.