Heinz Zemanek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heinz Zemanek

Austrian computer pioneer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1920

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 16-Jul-2014

Profession: computer scientist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Heinz 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.
The computer was nicknamed Mailüfterl — German for "May breeze" — in reference to Whirlwind, a computer developed at MIT between 1945 and 1951.