Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (born 1920)

Heinz Zemanek

Austrian computer pioneer

Heinz Zemanek 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 — Viennese for "May breeze" — in reference to Whirlwind, a computer…