Heinz Zemanek

Heinz Zemanek
Heinz Zemanek in 2007
Born(1920-01-01)1 January 1920
Vienna, Austria
Died16 July 2014(2014-07-16) (aged 94)
Vienna, Austria
Alma materVienna University of Technology
Known forMailüfterl, PL/I
AwardsAustrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Scientist
InstitutionsVienna University of Technology, IBM

Heinz Zemanek (actually Heinrich Josef Zemanek) (1 January 1920 – 16 July 2014) was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent.[1] The computer was nicknamed Mailüfterl — Viennese for "May breeze" — in reference to Whirlwind, a computer developed at MIT between 1945 and 1951.

  1. ^ Jones, Cliff B. (2015). "In memoriam: Professor Heinz Zemanek (1920–2014)". Formal Aspects of Computing. 27 (2): 237. doi:10.1007/s00165-015-0332-4.