Konrad Zuse

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Konrad Zuse
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He was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse has often been regarded as the inventor of the modern computer.

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He designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül.

Zuse was also noted for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process control computer.

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